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İsmail Şener
İsmail Şener

Reputation: 423

React Native Android location request timed out

In IOS there isn't a problem while looking for gps coords. It works fine.

On Android side its not stable as IOS. This problem both in real device and emulator. Sometimes it can find location, but sometimes not. Looking for 3days but there wasn't find a solution.

When my app cannot find my location, I tried via Google Maps app, it works like charm.

Here is my code for both IOS and Android;

getCurrentPosition() {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
        (position) => {
            this.setState({ initialPosition: position });
            alert(JSON.stringify(position))
            var coords = new Coords();
            coords.Latitude = position.coords.latitude;
            coords.Longitude = position.coords.longitude;
            this.getPharmaciesByCoordinates(coords);
        },
        (error) => alert(error.message),
        { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 20000, maximumAge: 1000 }
    );
    this.watchID = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition((position) => {
        this.setState({ initialPosition: position });
    },
        (error) => alert(error.message),
        { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 20000, maximumAge: 1000 }
    );
}

Any kind of solution is welcome.

Thanks

Upvotes: 30

Views: 46248

Answers (15)

Aminjonov Sardorbek
Aminjonov Sardorbek

Reputation: 69

Removing timeout and maximumAge did solve the issue on android on my end

Upvotes: 3

Akshay Bhimani
Akshay Bhimani

Reputation: 1864

You might want to check if your android emulator GPS is enabled or not.

Go to options ( "⋮" on emulator) --> Location --> Enable GPS signal should be enabled.

Options

Location

Enable GPS signal

Upvotes: 0

Sabri Mevis
Sabri Mevis

Reputation: 2431

For those who still facing the issue, be aware of the params. I used to leave params to defaults but when it comes to enableHighAccuracy, you should be careful because when you set this to false, that means you are requesting WIFI location else GPS location. If you don't set this true, you will probably receive error on emulators as I did.

Supported options:

timeout (ms) - Is a positive value representing the maximum length of time (in milliseconds) the device is allowed to take in order to return a position. Defaults to INFINITY.

maximumAge (ms) - Is a positive value indicating the maximum age in milliseconds of a possible cached position that is acceptable to return. If set to 0, it means that the device cannot use a cached position and must attempt to retrieve the real current position. If set to Infinity the device will always return a cached position regardless of its age. Defaults to INFINITY.

enableHighAccuracy (bool) - Is a boolean representing if to use GPS or not. If set to true, a GPS position will be requested. If set to false, a WIFI location will be requested.

Detailed Documentation

Edit 1; I recommend you all to use this library instead of native one (react-native-geolocation-service) as its created for such timeout issues.

Upvotes: 6

chenop
chenop

Reputation: 5143

I suggest to 2 ways to consider dealing with it:

  1. Use react-native-geolocation-service - a package that suppose to deal with that problem.
  2. Try to call once with enableHighAccuracy=true and if it fails try to call it again with enableHighAccuracy=false.
    Details: It seems enableHighAccuracy=true try fetching the location via the GPS - when enableHighAccuracy=false the device first try fetching the location via Wifi and if it fails it try to fetch it via the GPS.

Here is how I've implemented number 2:

import Geolocation from "@react-native-community/geolocation";

const getCurrentLocation = (resolve, enableHighAccuracy, onError) => {
    console.log(`[getCurrentPosition] enableHighAccuracy=${enableHighAccuracy.toString()}`);

    Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
        (position) => {
            const location = {
                latitude: position.coords.latitude,
                longitude: position.coords.longitude
            }
            console.log('[getCurrentPosition] success');
            resolve(location);
        },
        onError,
        {enableHighAccuracy, timeout: 20000}
    );
};

/**
 * We first try to get location with enableHighAccuracy=true (try to get position via GPS) if it fails try to get it with enableHighAccuracy=false (try to get position from wifi)
 * @return {Promise}
 */
export const getCurrentPosition = () => {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
        getCurrentLocation(resolve, true,
            (error1) => {
                // failed to retrieve with enableHighAccuracy=true - now try with enableHighAccuracy=false
                console.log(`[getCurrentPosition] failed 1st time trying again with enableHighAccuracy=false, error: ${error1.message}`);

                getCurrentLocation(resolve, false, (error2) => {
                    // Could not retrieve location - we can live with that
                    console.log(`[getCurrentPosition] failed ${error2.message}`);
                    resolve();
                })
            });
    });
}

Upvotes: 0

Krunal Vaghela
Krunal Vaghela

Reputation: 1076

Remove Param 'maximumAge' & Just Keep

{ enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 2000}

Upvotes: 2

Shashwat Sahu
Shashwat Sahu

Reputation: 69

In my case it worked fine after removing timeout and maximumAge and setting enableHighAccuracy to false.

Upvotes: 1

Buddhika
Buddhika

Reputation: 173

import Geolocation from '@react-native-community/geolocation';


Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
      position => {
        const initialPosition = JSON.stringify(position);
        console.log(initialPosition);
      },
      error => Alert.alert('Error', JSON.stringify(error)),
      {enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 20000, maximumAge: 1000},
    );

This function work for me and I have change the "AndroidManifest.xml" file with the 

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

Upvotes: 8

Vishal Pachpande
Vishal Pachpande

Reputation: 540

Hi I was facing same issue "request time out ". I have tried every possible solution which I found but, those could not work for me but recently I found one module which overcomes this problem. react-native-geolocation-service This worked for me .....

Upvotes: 6

Keshav Gera
Keshav Gera

Reputation: 11244

Working { enableHighAccuracy: false, timeout: 5000, maximumAge: 10000 },

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

Add Permission in P list and android Manifest also 

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { View, Text } from 'react-native';

export default class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      latitude: null,
      longitude: null,
      error: null,
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
      (position) => {
        this.setState({
          latitude: position.coords.latitude,
          longitude: position.coords.longitude,
          error: null,
        });
      },
      (error) => this.setState({ error: error.message }),
      { enableHighAccuracy: false, timeout: 5000, maximumAge: 10000 },
      // { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 20000, maximumAge: 1000 },
    );
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ flexGrow: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
        <Text>Latitude: {this.state.latitude}</Text>
        <Text>Longitude: {this.state.longitude}</Text>
        {this.state.error ? <Text>Error: {this.state.error}</Text> : null}
      </View>
    );
  }
}

Upvotes: -1

Arjun G
Arjun G

Reputation: 2284

I tried various methods and npm modules. Finally I got solved this issue by using this module. I strongly suggest this. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-geolocation-service

Upvotes: 1

Tuan Nguyen
Tuan Nguyen

Reputation: 2607

I have done the app by location request. The command
{ enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 25000, maximumAge: 3600000 }, will work on iOS but not in Android. I think you should check Platform.

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
          (location) => {
            console.log('location ', location);
            if (this.validLocation(location.coords)) {
              this.locationToAddress(location.coords);
            }
          },
          (error) => {
            console.log('request location error', error);
          },
          Platform.OS === 'android' ? {} : { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 20000, maximumAge: 10000  }
        );

Upvotes: 0

Thai Ha
Thai Ha

Reputation: 1379

I removed maximumAge: 3600000 on Android and it working

Upvotes: 26

Milon
Milon

Reputation: 2249

the tricks is, if you set 

{ enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 25000, maximumAge: 3600000 }

then it will work. full code below.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { View, Text } from 'react-native';

class GeolocationExample extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);

this.state = {
  latitude: null,
  longitude: null,
  error: null,
};
}

componentDidMount() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
  (position) => {
    this.setState({
      latitude: position.coords.latitude,
      longitude: position.coords.longitude,
      error: null,
       });
       },
  (error) => this.setState({ error: error.message }),
  { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: 25000, maximumAge: 3600000 },
);}

 render() {
return (
  <View style={{ flexGrow: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
    <Text>Latitude: {this.state.latitude}</Text>
    <Text>Longitude: {this.state.longitude}</Text>
    {this.state.error ? <Text>Error: {this.state.error}</Text> : null}
  </View>
  );
 }
}

export default GeolocationExample;

Upvotes: -5

dextertron_
dextertron_

Reputation: 1041

It's possible that you are inside of the building or office and your signal is not that good. I've tried with many configuration and this one fit the best for me:

{
    enableHighAccuracy: false,
    timeout: 5000,
    maximumAge: 10000
}

Or try increasing timeout. Because for me the usual 2000ms wasn't working, I kept getting "Location request timed out". So disable high accuracy, increase timeout and you're good to go.

Upvotes: 20

İsmail Şener
İsmail Şener

Reputation: 423

I found a solution via external lib that uses native LocationManager. It uses play services location and emitting location event as I want.

Here is the library; https://bitbucket.org/timhagn/react-native-google-locations#readme

And when compiling for android, don't forget to include android/app/build.gradle

dependencies {
    ...
    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services:10.0.1" -> which version that you have write down here.
    ...
}

And finally don't forget to download Google Play Services and Google Support Library in Android SDK Manager you can find your play services versions into;

<android-sdk-location>/<sdk-version>/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services

Upvotes: 2

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