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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Hooking Up the Model to the View Wrapping Up

Posted by mark magee
mark magee
1,578 Points

I am trying to find out how to add my location to the weather app. If someone could please hep? thanks in advance

I am trying to find out how to add my location to the weather app. If someone could please hep? thanks in advance

2 Answers

jon1234
jon1234
5,022 Points

There is pretty good documentation on the android developers site here. Look that over and see if you can get it. If you run into any problems, come back here and post the issue and I would be glad to help you through it. I have already added location services to my weather app, so I have a pretty good understanding of how to do it. The documentation seemed pretty straight forward and it was almost just copy and pasting the code from the documentation into my app.

Juan Francisco Andrade Álvarez
Juan Francisco Andrade Álvarez
23,997 Points
Juan Francisco Andrade Álvarez
Juan Francisco Andrade Álvarez
23,997 Points

Ben Jakuben just showed a link of his location tutorial: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-location-android which is really great to understand its basics. There, he also recommends checking out a more organised version of his code here: https://github.com/treehouse/android-location-example-refactored Based on these two sources, one is ready to apply this knowledge in the Stormy app, and i think whichever one that needs location services. Try it, and come back to share your findings. Good luck.

Luke Liem
Luke Liem
6,367 Points
Luke Liem
Luke Liem
6,367 Points

Ben's tutorial talks about starting a new project with a Google Map Activity.

Suppose I have an existing app with existing java and xml code base, is the best approach to copy these code into this new Google Map Project?

I do not see any tutorial to just add specific Google Map functionality, such as GPS location, into an existing app which is not build from scratch from a project with Google Map Activity.

I hope I have made myself clear.