LocationManager.md

Class: "location".LocationManager

Provides methods for querying geolocation (in case available) on the target platform.

Static Functions

• isEnabled() Boolean
  Checks whether the location services are switched ON for this device (on Android) or application (iOS).
  • return - Boolean
• distance( loc1 Location, loc2 Location ) Number
  Measures the distance in meters between two locations.
  • loc1 - Location
    The first location.
  • loc2 - Location
    The second location.
  • return - Number

Instance Properties

• desiredAccuracy - Number.
  The desired accuracy in meters. Defaults to DesiredAccuracy.HIGH
• updateDistance - Number.
  The update distance filter in meters. Specifies how often to update. Default on iOS is no filter, on Android it is 0 meters.
• minimumUpdateTime - Number.
  The minimum time interval between subsequent location updates, in milliseconds (ignored on iOS).
• isStarted - Boolean.
  True if the location listener is already started. In this case all other start requests will be ignored.
• lastKnownLocation - Location.
  Returns last known location from device's location services or null of no known last location.

Instance Functions

• startLocationMonitoring( onLocation Function..., onError? Function..., options? Options )
  Starts location monitoring.
  • onLocation - Function(location Location) Object
    A function that will be called upon every location update received.
  • onError - (optional) - Function(error Error) Object
    An optional error callback.
  • options - (optional) - Options
    An optional object specifying location update settings.
• stopLocationMonitoring()
  Stops location monitoring.