How to share location permanently on Android?

Does Android have family location sharing?

I was reading an interview with Google Mobile President Mark Randall (I think - can't find the text) in which he mentions a feature that you can share location with your family but I can't find any documentation of it and they haven't implemented it yet. I see a lot of talk about it.

We just got Android 4.0.3 last week, so I am looking at it for the first time. There is a new version of Location Services, but nothing seems to have changed that allows me to add family sharing.

Has anyone found this feature? If not, can we expect it to be available? Does it have a time table? Is it based on NFC or wifi? Can I do it manually on my own phone if the API is not implemented? Edit: Nevermind. I looked again and found a couple of articles that mention it. Thanks everyone for answering so quickly.

That was an example of the kind of information that isn't available on Google's site. All you know is that it's going to work with their next generation phones. What other info would be out there?

JonasNov 1 '12 at 8:46. 2

There was some specific feature you can look for which you should be able to see in the source code, but then you'd know only about one specific implementation. Shane Nov 1 '12 at 11:11. 1

@Shane This is true. However, this question can be considered a "solution" to the question about the API. That being said, I'm not sure I'd consider that as answer on its own. Either it works, or it doesn't. The only thing that makes it not answerable at all is if the API does not exist yet.

JonasNov 1 '12 at 16:17. What I've noticed is that you can't just "add family members." You first need to turn on the Location services and tap the "Manage Family members" box. At that point it says the account is inactive.

MannyNov 1 '12 at 17:31. Location sharing has been implemented, but as you note, it is a paid service at the moment. When it launches officially, you will be able to share your location from Android 4.

How to share location permanently on Android?

If you're a location-based game developer, you may be interested in the API of Google, that enables you to retrieve the location of your users.

In this post we will see how to share your location permanently with a third party application and how to use this information to build an Android game.

Introduction. In this tutorial we will: Use Google's Places API to access the location of our Android device. Share this location permanently with a third party application. How to share your location with a third party application. Let's start with the first part of this tutorial. You need a Google API project to enable your app to access the location of a user. To create such a project, click on Create Project in the Google API Console. Next, go to the APIs section, and enable the Places API by checking the box. For this tutorial, you can select the Android version (API 19) and the language (English). Now that you have enabled the Places API, you can add a few things to the manifest file of your application. The first thing we need to do is add a permission for the PERSONALLOCATION permission. Add this line to your AndroidManifest.xml file:

The next thing we need to do is enable the uses-permission tag in the AndroidManifest. Add this line to the tag: The next thing we need to do is add an activity that will enable us to request the location of the user. Add this code to your AndroidManifest.xml file:
Now that we have done that, we are ready to create a new Google Place Picker Activity and add the code that allows us to request the location of the user. The next thing we need to do is add a button in our layout file that will request the location of the user.