GPS geolocation support

I need accurate GPS location for an app. So geolocation by IP won’t do. I see that you may use cordova plugins such as cordova-plugin-geolocation.

But looking at the documentation for doing this myself is a bit vague. It talks about building locally and requiring Xcode which I would be unable to do on my Linux system. It also talks about a config.xml for including plugins. Could this possibly be all I need to do to include the cordova plugin? Do I need to build it myself, or map methods? I’m under the impression that builds can be done with the press of a button.

I’ve got a working node.js server running with the tabris.js app working on both Android and iPhone for some simple user interaction. How difficult would including native GPS data be? Alternatively I could perhaps use the in-app-browser to use W3C standards of trying to access GPS data.

This is my first few days with tabris.js so some direction would be greatly appreciated.

[cookieguru]

To include a plugin, as dested mentioned you just add the appropriate line to your config.xml. Once you’ve done that, you can head over to the “My Apps” section of https://tabrisjs.com/ and kick off a build for Android or iOS.

[dested]

Yes just a simple if statement. Yes just the config XML changes.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 2:20 PM Daniel P. Clark [e-mail] wrote:

When you say “branch my code a bit”. How is that? Is it simple like an if statement in the code to check for the Android OS, or is it more or less maintaining two separate code bases?

And I’m assuming by your narrow response that I’m on the right path and the config.xml is where I include the dependencies. I’m going to see if they’ll work in the test apps for both OSes. Unless you’re kind enough to stop me from doing something that won’t work.

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