Up until now debugging location oriented applications in the simulator was a bit painful, there was no real way other than coding to a specific location and if you relied on specific GIS data you couldn’t easily debug that case.
Chen was working with an enterprise customer and got fed up with that so he built a UI which you should be able to access via the Simulator menu in the next update. This UI allows you to drag a Map to determine your current location in the location API. It will fire the appropriate events and allow you to define the GPS states. This should make the lives of those of you building location aware applications much easier!
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Anonymous — April 14, 2014 at 8:37 am (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Great, This will be handy for quality assurance. The fixed GPS coordinates were not practical for most cases.
Anonymous — April 16, 2014 at 4:42 am (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Hi when is the plugin update going to be released?
Anonymous — April 16, 2014 at 4:22 pm (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Later next week. We are on Passover holiday here so its a bit difficult to make a release right now.
Anonymous — April 22, 2014 at 9:25 am (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Perfect, I needed this so much about 4 weeks ago lol, great new feature though!!!
Anonymous — April 25, 2014 at 4:54 am (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Hi I have downloaded latest plugin. Ran simulator. Can’t find “Map” menu item…
Anonymous — April 25, 2014 at 10:38 am (permalink)
Anonymous says:
Did you use the update client libraries feature? The simulator is part of that unless you create a new project.
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