How to connect a mouse (and use it to capture GPS coordinates from your cell phone)?

[luis_matheu]

Is it posible to conect a mouse to cell Phone so when its click GPS location is store?

[SteveJG]

@luis_matheu

Is it posible to conect a mouse to cell Phone

probably a Bluetooth mouse could work Google Search

@luis_matheu

so when its click GPS location is store

You want to use the Bluetooth mouse button to click a location on a Map to show the coordinates of the click in latitude and longitude and display it?

The following advice is NOT tested.

If you get the cell phone to respond to a mouse click; you might be able to use the Map component to capture the latitude and longitude from the Map component map with a Block like this to send the coordinates to a Label.

. You might be able to use the mouse button to 'tap' on a location on a map. It would be simpler to not use themouse. Just use the block , a map and your finger to select the location

[ChrisWard]

With a Bluetooth Mouse, it is possible that you could use either App Inventor's built-in Bluetooth or the BLE extension to communicate with it. I have never tried this but if you have the mouse you can experiment.

[luis_matheu]

Thanks Steve JG

i will try to set it up. while the actual idea is to use the mouse as a "Button" rather than as a pointer on a map. your approach is quite interesting.
I need to see if i can use a mouse as a "clicker" to record location, accuracy and time of event say the cellphone wil be in a backpack while mouse ring or clicker at hand when tap or click records location.

say a wireles mouse has a usb bluetooth that one should place at USB port so mose comunicates through it, no usb no recognition. I have so much to lear please send or share turtorials if you know of any.
best regards
LuisMa

[SteveJG]

Good luck. Be aware to use Bluetooth you have to have a WIFI or Data connection working. That might not be possible if your cell is in a backpack and may not be able to get satellite reception or a wifi or data connection ..

Experiment. I have never tried this. I think it could work. Let us know what happens.

If you want to get very fancy with your project, you might find the information in this tutorial

Foreground GPS Location Service experiments and Tutorial by SteveJG

Foreground GPS Location Service experiments and Tutorial by SteveJG Use the Android GPS receiver using a Foreground service, capture locations and a make a Track. Three examples use the CloudDB, a fourth example uses a Google Spreadsheet to store the data.Create a List of location coordinates and display a Track on a Map. When the Foreground (KAS) service is activated: the app will continue to post to the database when and after the device screen closes. The…

useful to capture your location information to a database. The database could be the TinyDB (I did not make a version of this showing how to use a TinyDB to capture the information you want to save. It would work too.) It does not involve bluetooth.