android - Geofences not triggering (pendingintents and broadcastreceiver) -

i've used android tutorial geofences which, obviously, doesn't work when app closed. so, after searching around, i've noticed user b-ryce on used broadcastreceiver geofences triggered if app not active (link question).

i cannot force geofences trigger when move outside/inside registered location. here's procedure:

    /**      * geolocation library      */     mgeolocation = new geolocation(sinstance);       /**      * mreceiver init      */     mreceiver = new receiver();     sinstance.registerreceiver(mreceiver, mreceiver.createintentfilter()); 

and inside geolocation class:

/*  * create pendingintent triggers intentservice in  * app when geofence transition occurs.  */ protected pendingintent gettransitionpendingintent() {     if (mgeopendingintent != null) {         return mgeopendingintent;     }      else {          // create explicit intent         //  intent intent = new intent(mcontext,         //          receivetransitionsintentservice.class);          intent intent = new intent(getclass().getpackage().getname() + ".geofence_receive");          /**          * return pendingintent          */         return pendingintent.getbroadcast(                 mcontext,                 0,                 intent,                 pendingintent.flag_update_current);      } } 

here's how create new geofence:

                        geofence fence = new geofence.builder()                                 .setrequestid(hashcode)                                         // when entering geofence                                 .settransitiontypes(geofence.geofence_transition_enter | geofence.geofence_transition_exit)                                 .setcircularregion(                                         double.parsedouble(single.getsetting("latitude")),                                         double.parsedouble(single.getsetting("longitude")),                                         float.parsefloat(single.getsetting("radius")) // radius in meters                                 )                                 .setexpirationduration(geofence.never_expire)                                 .build();                          mgeofences.add(fence); 

array gets populated , call addgeofences method inside geofence class

mgeolocation.addgeofences(mgeofences); 

androidmanifest.xml reciever class:

    <!-- receiver -->     <receiver android:name=".receiver" >     </receiver> 

and receiver class should log when geofence triggers

public void onreceive(context context, intent intent) {     string action = intent.getaction();      log.d("sfen", "broadcast recieved "+ action +" not needed."); } 

the problem is, geofence triggering when open map inside app pick locations. closing app (running in background) doesn't trigger , geofence transitions don't trigger anything.

can tell me doing wrong?

you should use intentservice receive geofencing event(not receiver).i wrote demo @ https://github.com/chenjishi/android_location_demo.

1.first define locationclient

    private locationclient locationclient; 

2.init it

@override public void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {     super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);     setcontentview(r.layout.main);      int resp = googleplayservicesutil.isgoogleplayservicesavailable(this);     if (resp == connectionresult.success) {         locationclient = new locationclient(this, this, this);         locationclient.connect();     } } 

3.when connect success, register geofences

@override public void onconnected(bundle bundle) {     arraylist<store> storelist = getstorelist();     if (null != storelist && storelist.size() > 0) {         arraylist<geofence> geofencelist = new arraylist<geofence>();         (store store : storelist) {             float radius = (float) store.radius;             geofence geofence = new geofence.builder()                     .setrequestid(store.id)                     .settransitiontypes(geofence.geofence_transition_enter | geofence.geofence_transition_exit)                     .setcircularregion(store.latitude, store.longitude, radius)                     .setexpirationduration(geofence.never_expire)                     .build();              geofencelist.add(geofence);         }          pendingintent geofencependingintent = pendingintent.getservice(this, 0,                 new intent(this, geofenceintentservice.class), pendingintent.flag_update_current);         locationclient.addgeofences(geofencelist, geofencependingintent, this);     } } 

4.finally define intentservice receive geofencing event

public class geofenceintentservice extends intentservice { public static final string transition_intent_service = "receivetransitionsintentservice";  public geofenceintentservice() {     super(transition_intent_service); }  @override protected void onhandleintent(intent intent) {     if (locationclient.haserror(intent)) {         //todo error process     } else {         int transitiontype = locationclient.getgeofencetransition(intent);         if (transitiontype == geofence.geofence_transition_enter ||                 transitiontype == geofence.geofence_transition_exit) {             list<geofence> triggerlist = locationclient.gettriggeringgeofences(intent);              (geofence geofence : triggerlist) {                 generatenotification(geofence.getrequestid(), "address defined");             }         }     } }  private void generatenotification(string locationid, string address) {     long when = system.currenttimemillis();     intent notifyintent = new intent(this, mainactivity.class);     notifyintent.putextra("id", locationid);     notifyintent.putextra("address", address);     notifyintent.setflags(intent.flag_activity_new_task | intent.flag_activity_clear_task);      pendingintent pendingintent = pendingintent.getactivity(this, 0, notifyintent, pendingintent.flag_update_current);      notificationcompat.builder builder =             new notificationcompat.builder(this)                     .setsmallicon(r.drawable.dac_logo)                     .setcontenttitle(locationid)                     .setcontenttext(address)                     .setcontentintent(pendingintent)                     .setautocancel(true)                     .setdefaults(notification.default_sound)                     .setwhen(when);      notificationmanager notificationmanager =             (notificationmanager) getsystemservice(context.notification_service);     notificationmanager.notify((int) when, builder.build()); } 

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