Please remove warning - Called stopObserving with existing subscriptions

https://github.com/Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service/blob/master/js/Geolocation.android.js#L87

Even if we call clearWatch before stopObserving, this warning is fired every time and gets very annoying. Can we get the warning removed? Or what’s the right way to prevent it?

[Agontuk]

The documentation for stopObserving() says: “Stops observing for device location changes. In addition, it removes all listeners previously registered.”. From this I understand that if there are some listeners, they will be removed when stopObserving() is called. Am I misinterpreting this?

No you’re right.

clearWatch will clear a specific subscription and then check if there’s any active watcher. If there’s none, it’ll call stopObserving to shut down the native location updates.

stopObserving will shut down the native location updates immediately, then proceeds to check if there’s any active watchers. If there are active watchers, it’ll print a warning to let developers know they still have active watchers before clearing all of them.

Printing the warning is actually useful for developers, who mistakenly called stopObserving. If you’re knowingly calling it to stop location updates & getting annoyed with the warning, you can ignore it using YellowBox api. Also this only affects development, it has no effect in production.

[Agontuk]

hi @Agontuk, If I only use clearWatch, after component is unmount, the location is still being tracked, so I’m forced to using stopObserving, and the warnings are still showing. Is this expected behavior?

Can you provide a sample code ? This shouldn’t be possible, clearWatch removes location tracking when called.