react-native-android-location-enabler

Allow to display a GoogleMap like android popup to ask for user to enable location services if disabled

Getting started

ReactNative >= 0.60.0

Installation

$ npm install react-native-android-location-enabler --save

Since ReactNative 0.60.0 and ReactNative Cli 2.0.0, no action is needed to add a native module.

ReactNative < 0.60.0

Installation

$ npm install react-native-android-location-enabler@1.1.0 --save

Configuration

$ react-native link react-native-android-location-enabler

Manual Configuration

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

• Add import com.heanoria.library.reactnative.locationenabler.RNAndroidLocationEnablerPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNAndroidLocationEnablerPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-android-location-enabler'
   project(':react-native-android-location-enabler').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir,  '../node_modules/react-native-android-location-enabler/android')

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

    compile project(':react-native-android-location-enabler')

Usage

Check if location is enabled

import { isLocationEnabled } from 'react-native-android-location-enabler';
import { Platform } from 'react-native';

async function handleCheckPressed() {
  if (Platform.OS === 'android') {
    const checkEnabled: boolean = await isLocationEnabled();
    console.log('checkEnabled', checkEnabled)
  }
}

Show a modal to ask user to enable location

import { promptForEnableLocationIfNeeded } from 'react-native-android-location-enabler';
import { Platform } from 'react-native';

async function handleEnabledPressed() {
  if (Platform.OS === 'android') {
    try {
      const enableResult = await promptForEnableLocationIfNeeded();
      console.log('enableResult', enableResult);
      // The user has accepted to enable the location services
      // data can be :
      //  - "already-enabled" if the location services has been already enabled
      //  - "enabled" if user has clicked on OK button in the popup
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      if (error instanceof Error) {
        console.error(error.message);
        // The user has not accepted to enable the location services or something went wrong during the process
        // "err" : { "code" : "ERR00|ERR01|ERR02|ERR03", "message" : "message"}
        // codes :
        //  - ERR00 : The user has clicked on Cancel button in the popup
        //  - ERR01 : If the Settings change are unavailable
        //  - ERR02 : If the popup has failed to open
        //  - ERR03 : Internal error
      }
    }
  }
}

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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