# Android Location Maps

> Google Maps SDK, FusedLocationProvider, and Background GeoFencing.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-location-maps`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [prasad-vennam](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/prasad-vennam)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [prasad-vennam](https://github.com/prasad-vennam)
- **Source:** https://github.com/prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/android-location-maps

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-location-maps
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Location Services & Maps Integration 🌍

Location is sensitive data. Apps must gracefully handle denial of permissions and battery-friendly location polling.

## ⚡ When to Use
- When drawing maps, plotting markers, or grabbing user coordinates.

## 🏗️ Core Rules / Pillars

### 1. Fused Location Provider
- **Pattern**: Directly calling `LocationManager` is an outdated anti-pattern.
- **Implementation**: ALWAYS use `FusedLocationProviderClient` from Google Play Services, which intelligently coalesces GPS, Wi-Fi, and Cell signals to save battery.

### 2. Compose Maps
- **Pattern**: Use the official Google Maps Compose library (`com.google.maps.android:maps-compose`).
- **Implementation**:
  ```kotlin
  val cameraPositionState = rememberCameraPositionState {
      position = CameraPosition.fromLatLngZoom(singapore, 10f)
  }
  GoogleMap(
      modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
      cameraPositionState = cameraPositionState
  ) {
      Marker(
          state = MarkerState(position = singapore),
          title = "Singapore",
          snippet = "Marker in Singapore"
      )
  }
  ```

## 🚧 Critical Anti-Hallucination Guards
- **Trap**: Do not ask for `ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION` up front. Android explicitly rejects apps that do this. You must ask for Foreground location first, explain the need, and only then ask the user to elevate to Background location.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [prasad-vennam](https://github.com/prasad-vennam)
- **Source:** [prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills](https://github.com/prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-location-maps
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/prasad-vennam
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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