Ruby on Rails & Android
[Android] Got always altitude 0.0 longitude 0.0 altitude 10.0 on DDMS
I had a really disturbing issue with my first use of the GPS of Android with DDMS.
Always got Latitude 0.0, longitude 0.0, altitude 10.0, when sending coordinates with the Location Controls tool.
To correct this bug (coming from the locals of your machine, simply add this line to your eclipse.ini file :
-Duser.language=en
Enjoy 
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