Cordova-plugin-googlemaps: Can the "Location Services not Available" prompt be disabled for ios?

[aMUSiC]

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Whenever I call map.getMyLocation() on ios (and I have location services turned off) a popup window comes up telling me to go to settings and enable them. As I would like to control what happens in the flow of my app if location services are not enabled, is there a way to disable that popup?

[wf9a5m75]

This plugin does not show up any popup.

Map.getMyLocation() is an alias of LocationService.getMyLocation().
https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps/blob/master/www/LocationService.js
https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps/blob/master/src/ios/GoogleMaps/PluginLocationService.m

Can you find any alert() dialog, or any popup command in the source code?

[aMUSiC]

The message in the dialog is the one found here:

https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps/blob/master/src/ios/strings/pgm_Localizable_en.json

"LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_TITLE" : "Location Service is not available",
  "LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE" : "This app needs to access your location. Please turn on \"Settings > Privacy > Location Services\"",

And yes I can find the the alert in PluginLocationService.m

NSString *LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE = [PluginUtil PGM_LOCALIZATION:@"LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE"];
        UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_TITLE
                                                                       message:LOCATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE
                                                                preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

[wf9a5m75]

Ah, I see. I forgot it.
However, the alert dialog is useful for most people.

Well, please use other geolocation plugin, such as cordova-geolocation-plugin

[aMUSiC]

That's what I ended up opting for, but in the spirit of trying to lighten the load of the app (more plugins = more load time), may I suggest in a future version of maps plugin that you can pass an additional key in the LocationOptions, (maybe showUnavailablePrompt: true/false) and let the developer decide if they want to use this feature.

I would fork and create a pull request for it, but I'm afraid I don't know how to code for ios

[wf9a5m75]

How about creating a new method, such as LocationService.hasPermission()?

[aMUSiC]

That would be even better. Can this work both for ios and android?

[wf9a5m75]

Done

[wf9a5m75]

https://github.com/mapsplugin/v2.0-demo/blob/master/www/LocationService/hasPermission.html

[aMUSiC]

Wow that was fast!!!!