get location

[ice-cube-1]

Lots of different ways to get location, with only deprecated official tutorials and very confusing documentation

• Will just try and find a good tutorial somewhere

[ice-cube-1]

Followed official codelab, conflicting gradle dependencies

• turns out the location the codelab was using doesn't work with compose
• Need to find a tutorial that uses both compose and location

[ice-cube-1]

• can't find a tutorial so am just following the (hard to understand) docs
• using getLastLocation, seems fine for now but it's not actually polling the location in any way so I'm not sure if it'll work well
• This works in that it gets the location at the beginning

[ice-cube-1]

Needs to do this repeatedly

• all tutorials seem to suggest using coroutines to do this, which seems far too complicated
• however I think using a timer should work? it doesn't appear to be causing blockages

[ice-cube-1]

Implemented a saved lat long in preferences plus a "set home button"

• however in testing this it doesn't seem to work unless something else is forcing the location to update
• maybe getlastlocation is incorrect? There's also a get current location but there manages to be even less documentation on that

Should probably fix that however

[ice-cube-1]

to get current location working first need a location request, which I've implemented the docs code is completely incorrect in terms of how to initialize that though

[ice-cube-1]

written function to get location updates and code to get location result issue is the callback hasn't been initialized?

[ice-cube-1]

Fixed by switching order of function calls so the stuff in oncreate is before startlocationupdates is initialized Tested that - it works and updates far faster