capacitor-gray-geolocation

Description

Geolocation plugin that uses the fused location service instead of the native API.

Getting a location under android is quite difficult. The standard API implemented now in capacitor returns the GPS provider which results in never getting a position indoors. This is not the case under iOS. A better way under Android is the FusedLocationProvider which already handles that.

This Plugin also has method calls to turn on location.

Supported platforms

• Android
• Web

Android setup

• npm i capacitor-gray-geolocation
• ionic build
• npx cap copy
• npx cap sync
• npx cap open android
• [extra step] in android case we need to tell Capacitor to initialise the plugin:

on your MainActivity.java file add import com.grayhat.geolocation.GrayGeolocation; and then inside the init callback add(GrayGeolocation.class);

Now you should be set to go. Try to run your client using npx cap open android.

Tip: every time you change a native code you may need to clean up the cache (Build > Clean Project | Build > Rebuild Project) and then run the app again.

Example

import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core";
import "capacitor-gray-geolocation";

const { GrayGeolocation } = Plugins;

// ...code

//function to get location (handle errors yourself) 
getLocation = async() => {
    let deviceInfo = await Plugins.Device.getInfo();
    if(deviceInfo.platform === "ios") {
        //use the capacitor Plugins.Geolocation for geolocation
        return;
    }
    let locationOn = await GrayGeolocation.turnLocationOn();
    if(locationOn.res) {
        let coords = await GrayGeolocation.getCurrentPosition();
        console.log("latitude :",coords.latitude,"longitude :",coords.longitude);
        return coords;
    }
    else{
        //failed to turn on location : User declined
    }
}

Testing

Manually tested against the following platforms:

• Android device 10.0 (API Level 29)