android-nmea-parser

Light-weight Android Java library for NMEA sentences parsing

Supported sentences:

GPRMC/GNRMC
GPGGA/GNGGA
GPGSV/GNGSV
GPGSA/GNGSA

NMEA Parser

flow parser build on top of the BasicNMEAParser that maps raw NMEA data to useful Android objects such as Location and GpsSatellite

Location parsing

To get an Android Location object you have to parse both RMC and GGA with the same time.

val handler = object: NMEAHandler() {
    ...
    override fun onLocation(location: Location) {

    }
    ...
}
val parser = NMEAParser(handler)
parser.parse("$GPRMC,163407.000,A,5004.7485,N,01423.8956,E,0.04,36.97,180416,,*38")
parser.parse("$GPGGA,163407.000,5004.7485,N,01423.8956,E,1,07,1.7,285.7,M,45.5,M,,0000*5F")

Satellites parsing

To get a list of gps satellites you have to parse all of GSVs and at least one GSA sentence. Since Android GpsSatellite class is inaccessible (only through reflection), the package level GpsSatellite is introduced.

val handler = object: NMEAHandler() {
    ...
    override fun onSatellites(satellites: List<GpsSatellite>) {

    }
    ...
}
val parser = NMEAParser(handler)
parser.parse("$GPGSV,3,1,11,29,86,273,30,25,60,110,38,31,52,278,47,02,28,050,39*7D")
parser.parse("$GPGSV,3,2,11,12,23,110,34,26,18,295,29,21,17,190,30,05,11,092,25*72")
parser.parse("$GPGSV,3,3,11,14,02,232,13,23,02,346,12,20,01,135,13*48")
parser.parse("$GPGSA,A,3,25,02,26,05,29,31,21,12,,,,,1.6,1.0,1.3*3B")

if you don't need all methods there's also an Adapter

Basic NMEA Parser

flow parser that allows you to access raw NMEA data

val handler = object: BasicNMEAHandler() {
    ...
    override fun onRMC(date: Long?, time: Long, posStatus: String, latitude: Double?, longitude: Double?, speed: Float?, direction: Float?, magVar: Float?, magVarDir: String?, modeInc: String?, isGN: Boolean) {
        
    }
    ...
}
val parser = new BasicNMEAParser(handler)
parser.parse("$GPRMC,163407.000,A,5004.7485,N,01423.8956,E,0.04,36.97,180416,,*38")