The respective functionality is available on the bus. The respective properties are:
com.ubuntu.location.Service.IsOnline : bool com.ubuntu.location.Service.DoesSatelliteBasedPositioning : bool Both properties are available via the platform-api, too. ** Changed in: location-service (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1440852 Title: Need a way to tell our userspace if GPS is currently active or not Status in location-service package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: As a result of bug 1434379, QA wanted to check if there could be a way (cmdline/API) to know, from the location-service itself, when the GPS hardware is active or not. Basically the only reliable way to know that is by checking /system/bin/logcat, and retrieving the GPS HAL logs. Having such call could allow us to create regression tests that could check for bug 1434379 (and similar ones). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/1440852/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp