News · 3 Aug 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
If you are a Windows Phone 7 developer who wishes to build an application that uses the on-board GPS you will definitely find yourself in need for a development handset. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn’t have enough of them so KeyboardP just came to the rescue and developed a application to simulate the GPS and sent the coordinates to the emulated phone:
So, what is it? Simple – A locally hosted server displaying Bing maps and a client (e.g. your WP7 app) consuming those coordinates. As you move your mouse along the map, the GPS coordinates are retrieved and sent to the phone. This opens up quite a few possibilities. For example, you could store the coordinates every X seconds in a list to generate a ‘path’ that simulates someone driving from one point to another. If you need to know exact coordinates for your application, you can also extend the app so that you can press a key whenever you want to store a particular coordinate.
You can check out the app in action in the video below:
Head over to the source to download the code and hopefully use it for some intersting WP7 aplications.
Source: Phone7
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