Best Practice To Report User Location Continuously

I'm designing an application where application in server side need to be continuously aware of user location. I'm thinking to create an Android service that run in the background a

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I suggest to create a background Service which just uses the NETWORK_PROVIDER and the PASSIVE_PROVIDER. You can use the minTime and the minDistance parameter to avoid draining the battery. Documentation

And Reto wrote a great post about obtaining users location http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/06/deep-dive-into-location.html

Regarding your comment you have to start your service sticky: Documentation