Publishing messages from Android in the background
With this recipe, we are going to complete the project we began in the previous recipe; we will implement an Android app that publishes the current device's position to RabbitMQ. This example is simpler than the previous one, as we are not going to plot the positions on a map, but we still need the Google Play services since we have decided to make use of their location service; it provides a useful abstraction for the available location sensors available on the device, letting the application be compatible with a wide spectrum of Android devices.
Getting ready…
To put to work this recipe, we need:
- The Android SDK tools (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
- An Android device with Android API ...
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