Creating Location Aware Applications for Windows Mobile Devices

More and more Windows Mobile powered devices ship with integrated global positioning system (GPS) hardware. Since Windows Mobile devices are typically used on the road, it makes a lot of sense to add location awareness to your applications. In the upcoming future, Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys foresee location aware applications moving beyond traditional navigation software. Adding location awareness to all kinds of social networking applications could be the next big thing for Windows Mobile devices. In this sample filled session, Constanze and Maarten show you how you can make use of the GPS Intermediate Driver to retrieve GPS information from inside managed applications. You will learn how to use the FakeGPS utility to test location-enabled applications without needing access to a physical GPS device and you will also learn how to feed FakeGPS with your own recorded location information. Of course you will also see a real location-aware application on a Windows Mobile Device in action.