Possible bug in Eclipse DDMS emulator control?

Question

I've just upgraded to Eclipse 3.6. I saved Eclipse 3.5 and made a copy of the original workspace.

I now notice an error in my GPS/mapping application which worked fine in 3.5, when I send a location from the DDMS perspective using the emulator control tab. I have a standard listener:

onLocationChanged(Location location){...}

If I break on the first line of this, having sent the lat/lon pair of 53.5/-3.0, then the mLatitude/mLongitude in the location argument have changed to 53.508833/-3.005000 (6 dec places only shown). If I repeat with Eclipse 3.5 operating on the original project in its original workspace, then it's exactly right down to the smallest decimal place. It's exactly the same code in both workspaces.

The Android SDK is 2.2 in both and the target is Google APIs level 7.

Would you say this is a bug in the Eclipse 3.6 or the SDK or the plugin?

I don't think it can be an error on my part, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong. 0.005 of a degree may not sound much but it's 0.3 nautical mile on a great circle.

Answer 1

Android recommends not using eclipse 3.6 with the ADT plugin. From Eclipse ADT

Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with

Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.

So I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bug with either.

Answer 2

I too have this exact issue (coordinates out by the same amounts as yours) with eclipse 3.5 using 2.1 and 2.2 apis with and without google. Also occurs when telneting and using geo fix instead of ddms.