pg-geolocation

Cordova Plugin Geolocation

Get current location in android & ios mobile app

Example

Installing the Cordova CLI

npm install -g cordova

Create the App

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello

Add Platforms

cordova platform add ios
cordova platform add android

Add plugin

cordova plugin add pg-geolocation
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-add-swift-support --save

For IOS

• Open Xcode & choose team in signing
• Build Phases > Link Binary With Libraries ==> Add CoreLocation.framework

• Edit HelloWorld-Info.plist
• Add privacy location permision

• Change hello\www\js\index.js
• Replace onDeviceReady function

onDeviceReady: function() {

  app.receivedEvent('deviceready');

  geolocation.getgeolocation(
    'Geolocation',
    function(msg) {
      document.getElementById('lat').innerHTML = msg[0].lat;
      document.getElementById('lng').innerHTML = msg[1].lng;
    },
    function(err) {
      document.getElementById('lat').innerHTML = err;
    }
  );

  geolocation.getstatus(
    'Plugin Ready',
    function(msg) {
      document.getElementById('deviceready').querySelector('.received').innerHTML = msg;
    },
    function(err) {
      document.getElementById('deviceready').innerHTML = '<p class="event received">' + err + '</p>';
    }
  );

  geolocation.getname(
    'Geolocation plugin',
    function(msg) {
      document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0].innerHTML = msg;
    },
    function(err) {
      document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0].innerHTML = err;
    }
  );
},

• Change hello\www\index.html

<div class="app">
    <h1>Apache Cordova</h1>
    <div id="deviceready" class="blink">
        <p class="event listening">Connecting to Device</p>
        <p class="event received">Device is Ready</p>
    </div>
    <div class="">
      <p>Latitude: <span id="lat"></span></p>
      <p>Longitude: <span id="lng"></span></p>
    </div>
</div>

Build app

cordova build ios

Run app in Xcode

For Android

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