Create an Android GPS tracking application
The source code for the Android mobile application open-gpstracker which you appreciated is available here. You can checkout the code using SVN client application or via Git: svn checkout http://open-gpstracker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-gpstracker-read-only git clone https://code.google.com/p/open-gpstracker/ Debugging the source code will surely help you.