First of all, I'd like to apologize if I'm not making myself very clear, as English is not my first language + this is actually the first android app that I'm writing, so I don't know the terms/names for things as well. 

The problem I'm having is that when I have bad GPS and/or network connection, my app crashes as soon as it can't get the current location which needed for the whole program to work (might crash because it can't connect to google services?). I don't know specifically why that's happening as I don't have bad connection at the moment, which means I debug the program and check exactly why it's crashing, but I will try to include as much of the methods that use location as needed.

First I initialize the variable: 

```
private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;

```

In onCreate() I create the following objects: 

```
mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
            .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
            .addApi(LocationServices.API)
            .build();

    mLocationRequest = LocationRequest.create()
            .setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY)
            .setSmallestDisplacement(1)
            .setInterval(2 * 1000)
            .setFastestInterval(1000);

```

Then later on I'm overriding onConnected() :

```
@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle bundle) {
    Location location = LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.getLastLocation(mGoogleApiClient);
    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient, mLocationRequest, this);
    handleNewLocation(location);
}

```

onConnectionFailed() :

```
@Override
public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
    if (connectionResult.hasResolution()) {
        try {
            connectionResult.startResolutionForResult(this, CONNECTION_FAILURE_RESOLUTION_REQUEST);
        } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    } else {
        Log.i(TAG, "Connection has failed, code: " + connectionResult.getErrorCode());
    }
}

```

And here's the function handleNewLocation() using the location: 

```
private void handleNewLocation(Location location) {
    Log.d(TAG, location.toString());
    double currentLatitude = location.getLatitude();
    double currentLongitude = location.getLongitude();

```

This is from the crash log:

```
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime: Process: xx.xx.xx.checkpoints, PID: 22251
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.location.Location.toString()' on a null object reference
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at xx.xx.xx.checkpoints.MapsActivity.handleNewLocation(MapsActivity.java:400)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at xx.xx.xx.checkpoints.MapsActivity.onConnected(MapsActivity.java:364)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzj.zzg(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zze.zzmH(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zze.onConnected(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.api.zzg$2.onConnected(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzi$zzg.zznO(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzi$zza.zzc(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzi$zza.zzr(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzi$zzc.zznQ(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzi$zzb.handleMessage(Unknown Source)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6724)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1520)
05-24 14:08:10.312 22251 22251 E AndroidRuntime:    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1410)

```

What should I do to improve this? As in what could be the fix for the crashes? How could I check if the location has been set, and if it hasn't, wait until the location is found before continuing with the program? Just for clarification, I'm using Maps v1.