Show the Blue Dot with MapsIndoors - Part 1

Last updated: 6/14/2023

In this tutorial we will show how you can show a blue dot on the map, representing the users location. The position will be served from a mocked positioning provider and displayed on a map in a view controller.

We will start by creating our implementation of a positioning provider.

Create a class DemoPositionProvider that implements PositionProvider.

public class DemoPositionProvider  implements
        PositionProvider

Add some member variables to DemoPositionProvider.

• mPositionUpdateListener: The listener object
• isRunning: A running state boolean flag
• mLatestPosition: The latest positioning result
• mPositionUpdateTimer: A timer so we can update the position of the user within an time interval

OnPositionUpdateListener mPositionUpdateListener;
boolean isRunning = false;
MPPositionResult mLatestPosition;
MPPositionResult fixedPosition =  new MPPositionResult(
        new Point( 57.05813067, 9.95058065  ),
        0,
        0
);
Timer mPositionUpdateTimer = new Timer();

Create a method called updatePosition. This will be our "loop" constantly posting a new position to the delegate.

• Check if the provider has a running state
• Assign the fixedPosition value to mLatestPosition
• Notify the listener by calling onPositionUpdate passing the new position as argument

void updatePosition(){
    if(isRunning){
        mLatestPosition = fixedPosition;
        mLatestPosition.setProvider( this );
        if (mPositionUpdateListener != null) {
            mPositionUpdateListener.onPositionUpdate(mLatestPosition);
        }
    }
}

Implement the isPSEnabled method to check is the Positionning system is working or not, in this case the PS is always working since it's a mocked positioning provider.

@Override
public boolean isPSEnabled() {
    return true ;
}

Implement the startPositioning method. We set the running boolean to true and scheduel the repeating task of updating the user position by calling the updatePosition every 3 seconds.

@Override
public void startPositioning(@Nullable String arg) {
    isRunning = true;

Implement the stopPositioning method. We set the running boolean to false and stop the timer.

@Override
public void stopPositioning(@Nullable String arg) {
    isRunning = false;
    mPositionUpdateTimer.cancel();
}

Implement the isRunning method. Return the value of running.

@Override
public boolean isRunning() {
    return isRunning ;
}

In Part 2 we will create the map fragment that displays the blue dot.

See the sample in DemoPositionProvider.java