Here a white paper with information about Location on S60 5th Edition. There are some information about Flash Lite accessing location information:
“With the introduction of S60 5th Edition, Flash Lite developers have access to location and landmark services through an ActionScript binding to the S60 Platform Services. This feature enables Flash Lite developers to perform such operations as acquiring a location, tracing location updates and making location-based calculations as well as searching and modifying landmark databases. To use these features the ActionScript code needs to create a variable to hold a specific service object, such as the location service. Once this is done another variable can be set to a specific attribute of the service, such as location, as shown in the following code:
var so = new Service(”Service.Location”, “ILocation”);
var location = so.GetLocation();
The variable returned from GetLocation() can provide longitude, latitude, altitude, satellite, speed, course and heading data. With the introduction of S60 Platform Services support to Flash Lite, developers can now create location-based applications for S60 devices and offer features that were previously achievable in Symbian C++ and Java applications only.”
It could not be any easier !! Really looking forward to play with these new capabilities.
Alessandro
have been reading through the white paper. but wonder will it be available to other S60 Edition? say S60 3rd Edition? Now S60 5th only in Nokia 5800 right? correct me if i’m wrong. thx!
Ciao
I do not if they will provide these apis to other platforms, maybe with a firmware upgrade? Not sure.
Alessandro
Hi Alesandro,
Looking at the white paper, its going to be great to be able to use all of these new functions.
I expect that the phone will have to have an on board compass or will it work with without one?
I have looked at some of the very cool android apps that let you look through the camera and see locations tagged, which I think are brilliant. The only way to do this is to have a gps position and a direction in order to get the true location view of what the camera is seeing. Since android devices have compass built in they can do this.
I’m looking forward to trying something out like this when the next gen phones come out.
Mark
I hope they
Ciao Mark,
there is a Webminar today, we will know more since there are no API docs at the moment out.
Alessandro
Ciao Alessandro,
was a pleasure meeting you in Barcelona, you remember me, i’m a friend of Luca.
So, only today I read this post … I was lost in work…. very interesting, i have to try it on my 5800.
Andrea
Hi
Do any of you know of any actual working getLocation() samples?
I have the latest firmware upgraded 5800 with GPS enabled and am getting nowhere with the getLocation() functionality? I have tried the various samples on Forum Nokia.
cheers