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How to enable Show Location button?

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

I am wondering how to enable the Location Button on my map (bottom right): http://imgur.com/R1KFUtJ

BTW animateToLocation method of the gMap object throws error when executed:

mapView.gMap.animateToLocation();

which resulted in app crash.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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Stavanger75commented, Jul 4, 2016

Hi,

I got this code to work on android and ios. Hope it helps.

   mapView = args.object;
    var gMap = mapView.gMap;

    if(mapView.android) {
        uiSettings = gMap.getUiSettings();
        uiSettings.setMyLocationButtonEnabled(true);
        gMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
    }

    if (mapView.ios) {
        gMap.myLocationEnabled = true;
        gMap.settings.myLocationButton = true;
    }

Here is a more complete sample. (not tested). Sorry for the bad formating of the code under.

//Plugin from : https://github.com/NathanaelA/nativescript-permissions var permissions = require('nativescript-permissions');

exports.onMapReady(args){

        mapView = args.object;
        var gMap = mapView.gMap;

//Application request the location permission
    permissions.requestPermission(android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, "I need these permissions because I'm cool")
        .then(function() {
                    console.log("Woo Hoo, I have the power!");
                    if(mapView.android) {
                    uiSettings = gMap.getUiSettings();
                    uiSettings.setMyLocationButtonEnabled(true);
                        gMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
                }

                if(mapView.ios) {
                        gMap.myLocationEnabled = true;
                        gMap.settings.myLocationButton = true;
            }

      })
       .catch(function() {
            console.log("Uh oh, no permissions - plan B time!");
        });

}

1reaction

ickatacommented, Jul 5, 2016

I confirm that the example is working on my side.

Thanks, @Stavanger75 !

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