Looking to create a GPS service to send city, state zip??

[John Herdean]

Hi, Im looking through your tutorials to find information how to build a GPS tracking service that sends the users location to my server every 5 minutes, but i couldnt find any. So, I went and added a new GPS service and found that you guys have a pre-built request and response parameters. Then, Im assuming when I invoke the service from like a button then the service will grab the longitude and latitude from the phones current location (GPS info) and I can map that info into local storage and create another service to grab those values and send them to my server?

Ok, and if thats the case thats fine, but dont you guys have an API to convert the longitude and latitude to give me its 'city + 'state' + 'zip code' ( in three separate variable) then i can send just the city, state, and zip back to my server?

[maxkatz]

There is Google API that takes latitude/longitude and returns city/state (or some combination of those).

We make it easy to use any API, but we don't have APIs (as in an API provider).

[John Herdean]

can i activate the Google API to do that directly from the phone or do i have to utulize the Google API on my backend server?

[maxkatz]

It's a REST API. You will invoke it from the app.