getCurrentLocation timeout and watchPosition not working with Android Emulator

I just upgraded to Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 and Android Emulator 30.7.5, and am now having trouble getting a GPS position returned within the emulator. I’m running Android Studio in Linux, although I’m not sure that matters.

I appear to have all permissions granted, in that the Location permissions show under Location settings in the emulator and a copy of hasLocationPermissions() from the example app returns true. I’ve set the timeout quite high (20 seconds), and am never getting a value back. I have also added a position watch and nothing seems to come back from there.

adb logcat doesn’t appear to show anything interesting related to the GPS from what I can tell. No obvious errors are spit out to react native or logcat while starting up the app.

I’m not sure where else exactly I should be looking to try to debug this issue.

[aardvarkk]

So the issue turns out to be that the default value of PRIORITY_BALANCED_POWER_ACCURACY for the accuracy just… doesn’t work in the emulator? I just happened to try it in my native testing code and swapped over to that value from the values I had inserted based on the Android tutorials for setting up a location request, which instruct you to use PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY.

After switching my native code test to use the balanced settings, I got the same isLocationAvailable: false value. Just changing my RN-level code to request accuracy: { android: 'high' } fixed all of the problems I was seeing.

My only recommendation from this bug would be to perhaps throw a warning/error if isLocationAvailable is false, even if isLocationEnabled is true. I will leave it open for the time being in hopes other people may find it if they run into the same weird issue.

[leonidlewis]

I can fix it

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:27 PM Efstathios Ntonas @.***> wrote:

cross posting this here just in case someone want to test this possible fix: #174 (comment) https://github.com/Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service/issues/174#issuecomment-1343015525

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