AirLocation

An android library to simplify the usage of Google Play services location APIs, to get the user's most precise live location via a callback!

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Features:

• The location is precise up to 7 decimal places
• Choose to get user's location just one-time, or continue getting live updates
• The library takes care of a host of redundant checks and tasks like:
  • Declaring the location permissions in the Manifest file
  • Adding the Google Play services location APIs library dependency in Gradle
  • Checking if Google Play services are available and up to date or not
    • If not, requesting the user to update it, along with providing an option to do so
  • Checking if location permissions are available or not
    • If not, requesting the user at runtime to grant the permissions
    • Also checking if the permissions are permanently disabled by the user
      • If so, taking the user to the app's settings page and requesting to manually grant the permissions.
  • Checking if the device hardware settings are optimized or not (GPS is on, Wifi is on, etc)
    • If not, requesting the user to grant permission to change settings automatically
• Uses only Google Play services location APIs internally - so you're in safe hands
• Simple plug and play design
• Extremely lightweight library (~50KB)
• Written in Kotlin (with full Java support)
• Android 10+ compatible (gets user's location via foreground location access, i.e., the activity requesting the location must be visible to the user to continue receiving location updates)
• Takes care of the activity lifecycle

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Setup

Add this line in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

    allprojects {
      repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } // this line
      }
    }

Add this line in your app build.gradle:

    dependencies {
      implementation 'com.github.mumayank:AirLocation:LATEST_VERSION' // this line
    }

where LATEST_VERSION is

Usage

1. Define airLocation
2. To start receiving live location, call airLocation.start()
3. Override onActivityResult and call airLocation.onActivityResult()
4. Override onRequestPermissionsResult and call airLocation.onRequestPermissionsResult()

Example:

    class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

        private val airLocation = AirLocation(this, object : AirLocation.Callback {  

            override fun onSuccess(locations: ArrayList<Location>) {  
                // do something 
                // the entire track is sent in locations
            }  

            override fun onFailure(locationFailedEnum: AirLocation.LocationFailedEnum) {  
                // do something 
                // the reason for failure is given in locationFailedEnum
            }  

        })

        override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
            ...
            airLocation.start() // CALL .start() WHEN YOU ARE READY TO RECEIVE LOCATION UPDATES
        }

        override fun onActivityResult(requestCode: Int, resultCode: Int, data: Intent?) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
            airLocation.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data) // ADD THIS LINE INSIDE onActivityResult
        }

        override fun onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode: Int, permissions: Array<out String>, grantResults: IntArray) {
            super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults)
            airLocation.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults) // ADD THIS LINE INSIDE onRequestPermissionResult
        }

    }

• In some cases, you'd want to just get user's live location once. In such a case, simply pass true as the value of the parameter isLocationRequiredOnlyOneTime:

    private val airLocation = AirLocation(this, object : AirLocation.Callback {  
        override fun onSuccess(locations: ArrayList<Location>) {  }  
        override fun onFailure(locationFailedEnum: AirLocation.LocationFailedEnum) {  }  
    }, true) // NOTE HERE: PASS true TO JUST GET USER'S LIVE LOCATION ONCE

Thank you!

If you love the library, or it has helped you in any way, please give it a star! I'd really appreciate it!

Post your feature requests/ pull requests/ bug reports in the appropriate section of this repository.

Thank you :)