Asking to turn on location

[puremana]

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Geolocation.getCurrentPosition() requests permission which is good, but when that user doesn't have location turned on and permission is granted, location isn't enabled. Is there a way to ask the user to enable location?

Android Version 6.0.1 Latest react-native-geolcation version React Native 0.61.5

[puremana]

Ended up wrapping my Geolocation.getCurrentPosition with RNAndroidLocationEnabler from https://github.com/Richou/react-native-android-location-enabler

[HarshitMadhav]

@puremana Can you share a sample code?

[puremana]

@HarshitMadhav Along the lines of this

constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    if (Platform.OS === 'android') {
        this.getPermissions()
    } else {
        this.findCoordinates()
    }
  }

  getPermissions = () => {
    RNAndroidLocationEnabler.promptForEnableLocationIfNeeded({interval: 10000, fastInterval: 5000})
    .then(data => {
      if (data === "already-enabled") {
        this.findCoordinates()
      } else {
        setTimeout(() => {
          this.findCoordinates()
        }, 1000)
      }
    })
  };

  findCoordinates = () => {
    Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
      info => {
        this.setState({ locationInfo: info });
      },
      error => {
        console.log(error)
      });
  }

[HarshitMadhav]

@puremana Thanks a lot..

[Zohaib-Javed]

Ended up wrapping my Geolocation.getCurrentPosition with RNAndroidLocationEnabler from https://github.com/Richou/react-native-android-location-enabler

what about ios?

[puremana]

Ended up wrapping my Geolocation.getCurrentPosition with RNAndroidLocationEnabler from https://github.com/Richou/react-native-android-location-enabler

what about ios?

This was awhile ago but I believe iOS did it by default using this package. Atleast that is what my code is telling me. Does it not?

[anuk112]

there' s another way that not using library?

[AhmadTahaluf]

Coming from 2022, is this issue solved yet?

[Princejain21]

hello @puremana I have tried with this code but I'm getting this error: TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating '_reactNativeAndroidLocationEnabler.default.promptForEnableLocationIfNeeded')

please check it why we are getting it even I had checked version issue.