Chapter 15. Geographic Location

In This Chapter

Understanding sensing technologies

Monitoring position changes

Simulating position changes with the emulator’s location simulator

Simulating position changes with a device compatible code driven approach

Detecting whether your app is executing within the emulator

Modulating position change events with Rx

Geographic location has become one of the principal uses of smartphones, and for good reason. Smartphones are portable, they go with us nearly everywhere, and offer the kind of processing power required to make displaying and interacting with complex maps possible.

The Windows Phone SDK provides an API that makes working with geographic location straightforward. The geographic location ...

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