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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:19:11 +0000
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> I know nothing about spoofing a wi-fi
> generated location on an Android phone.

If GPS is off, and the phone is having to do coarse location via wifi, 
it checks what visible SSIDs and signal strengths it can see, does an 
API call on a google database which returns a location ... that's how it 
works normally ... to fake a location you'd have to poison their 
database adding fake SSIDs and removing real ones ... basically a 
non-starter that way.

However there is reference to mock location support in the "hidden" 
developer options, basically an API to feed fake co-ordinates from an 
app to the phone

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager#setTestProviderLocation(java.lang.String,%20android.location.Location)>