Timeout searching for location on Android (Nativescript 3.0.3)

I saw issues reported on forum and this repository about issues on reading location on Android on NS3.0. I just want to report that it also not working on Nativescript Sample application.

Steps to reproduce:

• Clone the NS sample app repo (https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-sdk-examples-ng)
• run tns install
• run tns run android --emulator
• go to the location sample and click read current location

The plugin runs fine on iOS.

Attached please found the screenshot for your reference.

Versions: │ Component │ Current version │ Latest version │ Information │ │ nativescript │ 3.0.3 │ 3.0.3 │ Up to date │ │ tns-core-modules │ 3.0.1 │ 3.0.1 │ Up to date │ │ tns-android │ 3.0.1 │ 3.0.1 │ Up to date │ │ tns-ios │ 3.0.1 │ 3.0.1 │ Up to date │

Hope this can help and let me know if need any further information.

Regards Clarence

[F481]

Hi guys, please try to set the “desiredAccuracy” option to “Accuracy.high” (see https://docs.nativescript.org/hardware/location#getcurrentlocation). That solved the problem for me 👍

[TinoN]

nativescript-geolocation plugin version: 3.0.1

I had the same problem as described. Apparently first you have to call .watchLocation(); This seems to trigger the retrieval of the current GPS data. I am using my device (XiaoMi 5S) directly without emulator.

So here is what I did (I practically called .getCurrentLocation(...); and .clearWatch(watchId); after .watchLocation();:

function buttonGetLocationTap(args) {
    if (!geolocation.isEnabled()) {
        geolocation.enableLocationRequest();
    }

    watchId = geolocation.watchLocation();

    var location = geolocation.getCurrentLocation({desiredAccuracy: 3, updateDistance: 5, timeout: 20000})
    .then(function(loc) {
        if (loc) {
            console.log("Latitude " + loc.latitude);
            console.log("Longitude " + loc.longitude);
            console.log("Altitude " + loc.altitude);
            console.log("Horizontal Accuracy " + loc.horizontalAccuracy);
            console.log("Vertical Accuracy " + loc.verticalAccuracy);
            console.log("Speed " + loc.speed);
            console.log("Direction " + loc.direction);
            console.log("Timestamp " + loc.timestamp);

            geolocation.clearWatch(watchId);
        }
    }, function(e){
        console.log("Error: " + e.message);
        geolocation.clearWatch(watchId);
    });
}
exports.buttonGetLocationTap = buttonGetLocationTap;

Hope it helps. Regards!