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Question by Avi3ator · Dec 15, 2016 at 04:39 PM · androidscript.applegpsphone

Gps Tracker/Reciever

Hi! I want to create an app to android (and maybe apple) where you can see on a gps where a reciever is.

Lets say i build that reciever IRL. i would want to see that on my app. Kinda like "Find my iphone" but i dont want to find a phone, i want to find the reciever i made. Is this possible in Unity, and if so, How?

(i want to see it Realtime location, so if it moves i want to see it move)

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Answer by tanoshimi · Dec 15, 2016 at 04:41 PM

Yes, of course. You just get the tracker device to post it's location to a server every x seconds, and use the WWW class to retrieve that in your Unity app and display it on a map.

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uhm, not super proffessional, could you please explain more? Xd

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Well, which bit do you not understand? You retrieve the location information from the server using the WWW class. You poll this regularly using e.g. a coroutine or using InvokeRepeating(), parse the result, and set the x,y position of a gameobject's transform accordingly based on the GPS latitude/longitude coordinates projected onto a planar map, which you can display on a canvas.

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the WWW part, and how to setup the tracker :P the other coding is fine i think

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