ANDROID Geolocation not working for ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

[sabinayakc]

Environment

System:
OS: macOS 12.6
CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
Memory: 83.22 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 18.10.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
Yarn: Not Found
npm: 8.19.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
Watchman: 2022.10.03.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /Users/***/.rbenv/shims/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 16.0, macOS 12.3, tvOS 16.0, watchOS 9.0
Android SDK: Not Found //Local.properties
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2020.3 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7935034
Xcode: 14.0.1/14A400 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 11.0.16.1 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.1.0 => 18.1.0
react-native: 0.70.2 => 0.70.2
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Platforms

ANDROID

Versions

• Android: API Level 32
• iOS: 16
• react-native-geolocation: latest
• react-native: 0.70.2
• react: 18.1.0

Description

Geolocation returning {"PERMISSION_DENIED": 1, "POSITION_UNAVAILABLE": 2, "TIMEOUT": 3, "code": 1, "message": "Location permission was not granted."} when using ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.

Works fine with ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION. But if the user changes from precise to approximate it throws the above error.

Reproducible Demo

Pardon my lengthy code here, haven't refactored it.

--ANDROID MANIFEST

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

-- Checking Permission

 if (Platform.OS == 'android') {
      const permissions = [
        PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION,
        PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION,
      ];
      let options = {
        enableHighAccuracy: true,
        timeout: 2000,
        maximumAge: 3600000,
      };
      checkMultiple(permissions)
        .then(result => {
          const fine = result[PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION];
          const coarse = result[PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION];
          let req;
          if (fine == RESULTS.GRANTED) {
            req = PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION;
          } else if (coarse == RESULTS.GRANTED) {
            req = PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION;
            options.enableHighAccuracy = false;
          }
          if (req) {
                  this.findCurrentPosition(options);
          } else {
            requestMultiple(permissions)
              .then(status => {
                const per1 = status[PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION];
                const per2 = status[PERMISSIONS.ANDROID.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION];
                if (per1 == RESULTS.GRANTED || per2 == RESULTS.GRANTED) {
                  options.enableHighAccuracy = per2 == RESULTS.GRANTED ? false: true;
                  this.findCurrentPosition(options);
                } else {
                  this.locationError();
                  this.setState({error: true, loading: false});
                }
              })
              .catch(error => {
                crashlytics().recordError(new Error(error.message));
                this.setState({error: true, loading: false});
              });
          }
        })
        .catch(error => {
          crashlytics().recordError(new Error(error.message));
          this.setState({error: true, loading: false});
        });

• Geolocation Call

findCurrentPosition = (options = {}) => {
 Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
      position => {
        this.setState({
          lat: position.coords.latitude,
          lng: position.coords.longitude,
        });
      },
      err => {
        console.log(err). ---> Error happens here.
        crashlytics().recordError(new Error(err.message));
        this.setState({loading: false, error: true});
      },
      options
    );
  };

[michalchudziak]

Thank you for reporting, I'll look onto it soon.

[kamal-j]

I am also facing this issue. Is there a way to get only approximate location by just requesting ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission? Right now this package always requests for ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission.

[sabinayakc]

@kamal-j I have switched to using react-native-geolocation-service since its a time sensitive issue. So far its working. Fingers crossed.

[michalchudziak]

@kamal-j @sabinayakc I sent a PR to address this issue, would it be possible to check if it solves it on your end?

[sabinayakc]

@kamal-j if you could try it and let us know that would be great. unfortunately, i already deployed my code changes with the other package.

[michalchudziak]

Fixed in 3.0.3 release

[vauruk]

I have the same problem, RN 0.71.15 , RNG 3.1.0, someone knows about this problem! My Android 10 with SDK Engenico?

{"ACTIVITY_NULL": 4, "PERMISSION_DENIED": 1, "POSITION_UNAVAILABLE": 2, "TIMEOUT": 3, "code": 3, "message": "Location request timed out"}