My Location

[Bestfastfire]

How i can take my location? Or is this not possible using this?

[ferranpons]

Hi @Bestfastfire!

Of course you could take your location using this library! When setting it up and accepting the location permissions it automatically retrieves your location or you could use the "show my location button" that comes with the main activity.
For more info, please read the documentation that is on the readme.md file.

Thanks!

[Bestfastfire]

Sorry kkkk, I thought lib was just for scoring locations, I ended up asking a dumb question, but thanks for responding anyway. Also, excellent lib

[ferranpons]

Don't worry! There are no dumb questions. Glad we can help and glad that you like it. 😉

[Bestfastfire]

Man, Im right, this dont take my location all times, i tried but only work sometimes, others it shows that my location is in another state

[Bestfastfire]

I try to get my location with the picker but this does not always work. I activate GPS, sometimes it works other than GPS. If I open Google Maps and it finds my location, when I get back in the app with the lib it finds it too, otherwise it will not. Sometimes I turn on the GPS and he can find it, but few times it happens, I almost always have to go to google maps first.

When testing on other phones the same occurs, in some works and in others not. I tested the version on the lib page, I also implemented it in my app, in both cases the problem occurs.

[ferranpons]

@Bestfastfire it's a bit weird but please could you give more info?

• Which devices and OS versions
• If those devices have versions of API over 23, is geo-location permissions granted on all devices?

Thanks!

[Bestfastfire]

Yes, I gave the permissions and it did not work, I tested on one with API 21 and another with API 19, also did not work. I'm going to record and send the gif so you have a better idea of ​​the problem

[Bestfastfire]

Take a look, you're going to say "Ah but you did not wait long enough for him to find his location", in fact I did not wait too long for the video to be over, doing a test here I left 5 minutes and did not find, place there, only after opening google maps that he finds, that when he comes back in the app he finds it too

[jabber484]

I was also having the same problem.

I believe it is due to Leku did not initialize LocationManager probably. In fact both me and @Bestfastfire's screencap do not show that the app is using location service at all.
It is highly possible that Leku was keep getting the last known position.

After I created a request for Location Update before calling the Intent, as below,

LocationManager mLocationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
mLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 1000, 1, mLocationListener);

The activity works as expected.

[dikhawk]

hi @ferranpons i have some problem like @Bestfastfire, please add initialization LocationManager in LocationPickerActivity, this will fix the problem

[roiacult]

@Bestfastfire @jabber484
i was having the same problem and i also noticed thats when i open google maps befor opning my app it always get the right location so clearly the library is getting the last known position and not requesting updates
so what i did is force the user to activate gps befor opning leku activity and after user activate gps i called requestLocationUpdates function and then opened leku activate
i can provide some code if any one wants help