title: Get Gps Location Using Android
body: <p>I want to get latitude and Longitude from the following Android code.    </p>
  
  <pre><code>location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(provider);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here i am getting <code>error location is null</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.p;
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.location.Criteria;
  import android.location.Location;
  import android.location.LocationListener;
  import android.location.LocationManager;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.widget.TextView;
   import android.widget.Toast;
   public class GooglemapActivity extends Activity implements LocationListener {
    private TextView latituteField;
          private TextView longitudeField; 
     private LocationManager locationManager;
      private String provider;
  
  
   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
  
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.main);
      latituteField = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView02);
      longitudeField = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView04);
  
      // Get the location manager
      locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
      // Define the criteria how to select the locatioin provider -&gt; use
      // default
      Criteria criteria = new Criteria();
      provider = locationManager.getBestProvider(criteria, false);
      Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(provider);
  
      // Initialize the location fields
      if (location != null) {
          System.out.println("Provider " + provider + " has been selected.");
          int lat = (int) (location.getLatitude());
          int lng = (int) (location.getLongitude());
          latituteField.setText(String.valueOf(lat));
          longitudeField.setText(String.valueOf(lng));
      } else {
          latituteField.setText("Provider not available");
          longitudeField.setText("Provider not available");
      }
  }
  
  /* Request updates at startup */
  @Override
  protected void onResume() {
      super.onResume();
      locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, 400, 1, this);
  }
  
  /* Remove the locationlistener updates when Activity is paused */
  @Override
  protected void onPause() {
      super.onPause();
      locationManager.removeUpdates(this);
  }
  
  public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
      int lat = (int) (location.getLatitude());
      int lng = (int) (location.getLongitude());
      latituteField.setText(String.valueOf(lat));
      longitudeField.setText(String.valueOf(lng));
  }
  
  public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  
  }
  
  public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
      Toast.makeText(this, "Enabled new provider " + provider,
              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
  
  }
  
  public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
      Toast.makeText(this, "Disabled provider " + provider,
              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
  }
  }  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have added the following permisions:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Provider not available</p>
  </blockquote>