LocationManager never gives Available status for GPS - Codenameone - codenameone

Question

I created a small app to test out the GPS features of codenameone, but found that it never give an Available status, only Temporarily Unavailable.
For my little test app, the relevant code is the following:
private void doRetrieveLocationAction() {
try {
Location location = LocationManager.getLocationManager().getCurrentLocation();
taLocationDisplay.setText(getGPSDetails() + "\n : " + location.toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
taLocationDisplay.setText("Error retrieving location:"
+ "\n"
+ getGPSDetails()
+ "\n " + e.getMessage());
ToastBar.showErrorMessage("Error retrieving location:"
+ "\n"
+ getGPSDetails()
+ "\n " + e.getMessage(), 5000);
}
}
private String getGPSDetails() {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("isEnabled: ").append(LocationManager.getLocationManager().isGPSEnabled());
sb.append("\nisGPSDetectionSupported: ").append(LocationManager.getLocationManager().isGPSDetectionSupported());
sb.append("\ngetStatus: ").append(LocationManager.getLocationManager().getStatus());
return sb.toString();
}
The status being Integer, is assigned the following values in the codenameone source code:
public static final int AVAILABLE = 0;
public static final int OUT_OF_SERVICE = 1;
public static final int TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE = 2;
What I get when the GPS is off:
What I get Immediately after the GPS is turned on:
What I get after I waited a bit:
These results show that the Status never changes. When is the status supposed to change and how am I supposed to use that status? How do I know when the GPS can function or not?
This is being tested on Android

Answer 1

The GPS will be off by default unless you explicitly try to get "real" location by binding a listener to location events. So what you normally get is hybrid location and not GPS location.