react-native-android-google-location

Location acquisition through Google Play Services.

Add Google Play Services to Your Project

To make the Google Play services APIs available to your app:

1. Open the build.gradle file inside your application module directory (app/build.gradle).

2. Add a new build rule under dependencies for the latest version of play-services, using one of the APIs listed below. Ensure that your top-level build.gradle contains a reference to the google() repo or to maven { url "https://maven.google.com" }

3. Save the changes, and click Sync Project with Gradle Files in the toolbar. Check here

Getting started

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

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-android-google-location

Manual installation

Android

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

• Add import co.twinger.gglocation.RNAndroidGoogleLocationPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNAndroidGoogleLocationPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

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

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

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

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

Add Permissions and used Google API to your Project

Add this to your AndroidManifest file;

// file: android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

Make sure this goes at the bottom of the <application> tag.

    <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />
    <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
        android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

Usage

import RNAndroidGoogleLocation from 'react-native-android-google-location';
 
 
export default class RNGoogleLocationExample extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      lng: 0.0, 
      lat: 0.0,
    };
 
    if (!this.eventEmitter) {
      // Register Listener Callback - has to be removed later
      this.eventEmitter = DeviceEventEmitter.addListener('updateLocation', this.onLocationChange.bind(this));
      // Initialize RNGLocation
      RNAndroidGoogleLocation.getLocation();
    }
  }
 
  onLocationChange (e: Event) {
    this.setState({
      lng: e.Longitude, 
      lat: e.Latitude 
    });
  }
 
  componentWillUnmount() {
    // Stop listening for Events
    this.eventEmitter.remove();
  }
 
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.location}>
          Lng: {this.state.lng} Lat: {this.state.lat}
        </Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}