An android library to help detect mock locations

Add the next dependency to your gradle.build

compile 'com.inforoeste.mocklocationdetector:mock-location-detector:1.0.0'

From anywhere on your code just call the class MockLocationDetector to access the following available static methods

1. isLocationFromMockProvider
2. checkForAllowMockLocationsApps
3. isAllowMockLocationsOn

To detect if the location object you received is a mock just call the method isLocationFromMockProvider and pass the context and the location object. This method only works on API 18+ if this method is called on lower apis it then it will check if Allow Mock Locations is ON or not and return the result. This is the recomended method for most cases.

If you want to check if there are apps on the users phone that have "ALLOW_MOCK_LOCATIONS" permission on their manifest just call checkForAllowMockLocationsApps. This method is usefull for apps that use root access to enable/disable allow mock locations at runtime to try to fool other apps on lower apis (API 17 or lower). Also starting on Marshmallow its no longer possible to enable/disable allow mock locations at runtime with root permissions.

Finally you can call isAllowMockLocationsOn to check if the system setting Allow Mock Locations is enabled or not. Be aware that this method is deprecated and doesnt work on Marshmallow or up. If you call this method on API 23+ it will always return false.

You can run the sample to test the library

Copyright 2016 Stéphane Marques

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