issue getting last known location

Question

I test my apps on two phones (1) an LG Optima running 2.3.7 and (2) a galaxy S3 running 4.1.2. The following code always works on the LG and always fails with a nullPointerException on the Galaxy..

try { //sometimes getting the last known location gets a nullpointerexception
    String locationProvider = LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER;
    locMgr = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    Location myLoc = locMgr.getLastKnownLocation(locationProvider);
    CameraUpdate center = CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(new LatLng(myLoc.getLatitude(), myLoc.getLongitude()));
    map.animateCamera(center);
    DebugLog.debugLog("Instantiated new Location listener.  Moved camera to: " + myLoc.getLatitude() + myLoc.getLongitude() , false);

} catch (Exception e) {
    DebugLog.debugLog("Exception getting lastknownlocation - doing without" + e, false);
}

Is there something wrong with this code? Thanks, Gary

Answer 1

Is there something wrong with this code?

You are not checking to see if myLoc is null. getLastKnownLocation() does not have to return a non-null value.