Android’s Location-Based Services (LBS).
October 1st, 2009
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Location functionality makes possible totally new applications. Application can look up restaurants, hotels, taxis and other services. The world of LBS is just starting and Google’s Android offers features that makes the development of these applications easie. To enable this functionality Android application has to hold the apiKey attribute with the Google Maps API Key. This key is required in order to receive the map data, even while application is in development. Developers could register certificate and receive a Maps API Key for free. Application manifest should also request the INTERNET permissions. SDK provides a MapView class allows creating a map-viewing Activity, and ZoomControls widget for zooming in and out.