React-native-geolocation-service: Recurring notification/alert

[matthieupinte]

Hi,

First, thanks for your work... you saved my app ^^ !

I'm just here to see if you got a solution, some of my users are answering "Cancel" when this popup/notif/alert appears... (sorry, screen in french)

It means :

"To obtain best results, allow your device to activate localization, that use Google service localization" "Cancel" "Ok"

If they press "Cancel", the popup reappear instantly, again, and again, and again ...

Hope someone will find a solution. Some of them do not want to enable localization...

[Agontuk]

If user cancel, you'll get an error object in the error callback with code 5. If the alert is appearing again, it means you're probably requesting location again on error callback. Check your code.

[matthieupinte]

Yes, you're right, my bad...

[matthieupinte]

You're right, I'm asking 2-3 times getCurrentPosition... this is not good.
I didn't see that before, because, when navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition failed in RN (because no permission granted), no "notifications"/alert are shown.
With your package, here, you're always asking user if he is agree by using Google's location service (cause it will change it's settings directly)...

I need to find a way to don't ask again by your package getCurrentPosition if it's because of SETTINGS_NOT_SATISFIED... by a boolean... but also need to find if he changed is settings directly.

Just need to know if Location settings are ok or not, before ask getCurrentPosition with your package... like that, the alert "Change location settings" will not appear

[zsajjad]

Can we make this prompt optional? I have a scenario where I want device's location only when location service is enabled else app will proceed without location data. With current flow, app waits at the very beginning unless user responds to this dialog.

[Agontuk]

It's possible, I'll take a look. Maybe we can expose another option to disable the dialog like this -

Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
    (success) => {},
    (error) => {},
    { enableHighAccuracy: true, showLocationDialog: false }
);

[Agontuk]

New version is released with the option to disable location dialog.