You get GEOFENCE_NOT_AVAILABLE (code ‘1000’) when user disagrees to “Use Google’ location services” in Settings->Location->Mode: To fix it: go to Settings->Location->Mode set “Device only (Use GPS to determine your location)” set any other option to get the popup (e.g. “High accuracy (Use GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile networks to determine location”) dialog “”Use Google’ location services” … Read more
The LocationClient class has been replaced with the new FusedLocationProviderApi and the GeofencingApi, both of which use the common GoogleApiClient connection technique to connect to Google Play Services. Once you are connected, you can call methods such as requestLocationUpdates(): LocationRequest locationRequest = LocationRequest.create() .setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY); PendingResult<Status> result = LocationServices.FusedLocationApi .requestLocationUpdates( googleApiClient, // your connected GoogleApiClient locationRequest, … Read more
So after playing around with this a bit, it looks like the ReceiveTransitionsIntentService as defined in the sample code will stop getting the notifications when the app is not around. I think this is a big problem with the example code… Seems like that will trip folks like me up. So I used a broadcast … Read more
In my experience the geofences do not survive reboot. I use a BOOT_COMPLETED receiver just as you suggest. It works fine.