Any smartphone definitely has a precise GPS chip to determine your geographic location as soon as it is activated and transfers the location coordinates to the phone’s operating system to share this data with applications that need to know the “location” to perform a specific service. But despite being a very useful technology, there are some scenarios where you may want to fake your location, meaning making the GPS send coordinates to applications of a place that does not actually exist, for example, when sharing your location with someone on WhatsApp but do not want them to know your exact location on the map, and other reasons. Fortunately, fooling the GPS on Android phones is very easy, so let us explain how in the following lines.
