[Question]Location on or off manually

[heinzan]

[Question]how check gps is on or off.My problem is when user is manually off his location how detect it and inform him.Thanks

[xnio94]

@heinzan did you find a solution?

[anirudhsharma392]

First of all thanks a lot for this plugin.
Is there any tweak so that I can get gps status using this plugin only.
Otherwise I need to execute other process in the background for fetching up GPS status of mobile.

[mehdok]

There is no way to get gps status with this plugin, I believe there are more than one plugin out there to do this task for you. If you have any problem running other plugins in callback please refer to this wiki;

[anirudhsharma392]

ok, thanks though.

[anirudhsharma392]

@mehdok there are several plugins available to know the GPS status but I cannot call them in a callback. Since callback will not be called if GPS is turned off !!
@heinzan, @xnio94 did you guys sort it out ?

[xnio94]

i used a combination of other packages to achieve the same thing :

• i used flutter_foreground_plugin to run a callback every 5 seconds.
  using a foreground service means that a notification needs to be always showing in the tray, after a lot of research I learned its the best way to guarantee that the work will be done in the background, otherways the OS may prevent it (there is a lot of details here but in my case, that was the best solution)
• the callback use geolocation to check GPS status and get the location.
• if GPS is disabled notify the user using flutter_local_notifications
• if its enabled do some work in my case (log the location into a database)

i still have some problems when the app is killed by the user. the plugin flutter_foreground_plugin did not work even if a notification still showing in the background

@anirudhsharma392 i hope this help otherwise I will try to assemble everything in a single package later (after finishing my current project) because I tried multiple packages but all of them didn't do the job out of the box and I don't see how to improve on top of them without major changes
there is also a paid option but it cost no less than 329$

[mehdok]

@anirudhsharma392
The callback is doing what it soppose to do. Callback is getting called When a new location point is available. You are turning the gps off and there is not any new location point and callback is not getting called.

I know you have truble getting gps status and it's a nice feature to have in library. I would appreaciate if you could create a PR and add this feature.

[anirudhsharma392]

@xnio94 thanks for your suggestion, I will try to follow the steps you mentioned.
@mehdok nothing wrong with the package. It's working great, actually better than all the other packages available for this purpose. I think we can close this issue and create a new request for this feature (maybe in a todo list) and also I will try to add this feature if the time allows.