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capacitor-community / background-geolocation

A Capacitor plugin that sends you geolocation updates, even while the app is in the background.
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Not enabling 'Precise' location on iOS does not error out #115

Open jhp0621 opened 1 month ago

jhp0621 commented 1 month ago

Describe the bug On Android, if I don't provide "precise" location data permission (just "approximate"), the addWatcher method returns an error in the callback function with the code "NOT_AUTHORIZED", but on iOS, there is no error and tracking starts. We need precise location for our usage.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create an app that uses this plugin
  2. Set the addWatcher method
  3. Allow location permission on the app but not 'precise' (on Android: choose 'approximate'; on iOS: toggle off 'precise location')
  4. On an Android device, the plugin throws an error "NOT_AUTHORIZED" but on an iOS device, it does not and the location tracking begins.

Expected behavior iOS behaves the same way as Android: error is present in the addWatcher method's callback function if "precise location" is not granted by the user

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diachedelic commented 1 month ago

If you can find a solution I will incorporate it into the plugin. This is probably the best place to start looking: https://github.com/capacitor-community/background-geolocation/blob/fe780a4c8672f7b526792c2815d6e99652a55cd7/ios/Plugin/Plugin.swift#L108-L127.

GerardoTovar commented 1 week ago

A temporary fix. What I did is force the user to choose the precision option and always use it when the app is active. This can be achieved using the cordova-diagnostic-plugin plugin but you still have to implement some complex permission request logic.