How to enable / disable gps and mobile data in android programmatically?

Question

I want my application to be able to enable / disable gps and mobile data programmatically, as there are many applications like tasker, profile stream, additional view that can do this, so I searched for it but did not find any useful example. The following code, but they did not work.

private void setMobileDataEnabled(Context context, boolean enabled) { final ConnectivityManager conman = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE); final Class conmanClass = Class.forName(conman.getClass().getName()); final Field iConnectivityManagerField = conmanClass.getDeclaredField("mService"); iConnectivityManagerField.setAccessible(true); final Object iConnectivityManager = iConnectivityManagerField.get(conman); final Class iConnectivityManagerClass = Class.forName(iConnectivityManager.getClass().getName()); final Method setMobileDataEnabledMethod = iConnectivityManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod("setMobileDataEnabled", Boolean.TYPE); setMobileDataEnabledMethod.setAccessible(true); setMobileDataEnabledMethod.invoke(iConnectivityManager, enabled); } private void turnGPSOn(){ String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED); if(!provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is disabled final Intent poke = new Intent(); poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"); poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE); poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); sendBroadcast(poke); } } private void turnGPSOff(){ String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED); if(provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is enabled final Intent poke = new Intent(); poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"); poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE); poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); sendBroadcast(poke); } } 

Answer 1

I want my app to enable / disable gps

Fortunately, this is not possible, for obvious privacy reasons. While there were some hacks, like the one that was in your question that worked, these security flaws were fixed.

as there are many applications like tasker, profile stream, additional view that can do this

You can provide evidence that any of these applications can do this in modern versions of Android.

Answer 2

Try this to enable gps

 public void turnGPSOn() { Intent intent = new Intent("android.location.GPS_ENABLED_CHANGE"); intent.putExtra("enabled", true); this.ctx.sendBroadcast(intent); String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(ctx.getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED); if(!provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is disabled final Intent poke = new Intent(); poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"); poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE); poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); this.ctx.sendBroadcast(poke); } } 

to turn off gps,

 public void turnGPSOff() { String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(ctx.getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED); if(provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is enabled final Intent poke = new Intent(); poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider"); poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE); poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); this.ctx.sendBroadcast(poke); } } 

For mobile data, have you added permission to the manifest? If not try to add and check it out.

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE"/> 

Let me know if everything worked.