Adding support for play services based geolocation could come as a value add later. If the current implementation is broken and no one wants to work on it (seems to be the case since it hasn't been fixed yet), then Joe's suggestion to just drop it now and leave a no-op plugin that adds permission only sounds like the right thing short term.
Joes first email claims Web Geolocation supports all current versions of android (http://caniuse.com/geolocation claims android 2.1+ though I didn't look in to possible quirks). -Michal On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the plugin still needed on older android versions? e.g. we might > want to have it be a no-op based on the android version instead of > deleting it? > > Android geolocation seems to have gone Play Services, so another > option would be to make the plugin use that instead of the OS > geolocation in order to provide some utility. > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > The index.html issue was iOS, not sure if it still exists. > > > > Windows Phone 7+8 use the browser based geolocation as they have > > implemented the spec, However because of the way permissions are > managed, > > there is a native do-nothing stub that simply signal that Location > Services > > are required. > > Windows8 does some massaging of the api to the WinJS version, and adds > the > > permissions to the project. > > > > I just spoke ( physically ) with Joe, and with this change, the > geolocation > > plugin would still exist for Android, it would just add the permission to > > the app. So, Android's plugin would be almost identical to WP7+8 with > this > > change. > > > > +1 from me, assuming everything will just work. > > > > > > > > @purplecabbage > > risingj.com > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> It never did on Android, you can see this in Mobile-Spec. > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Does the permission dialogue still ask for index.html ? > >> > > >> > > >> > On Friday, January 10, 2014, Joe Bowser wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Due to numerous issues found in Geolocation, combined with an > increase > >> >> in reliability of the Web Geolocation, I'm wanting to see us EOL the > >> >> Geolocation plugin. > >> >> > >> >> Reasons for this include: > >> >> * Support for Geolocation on all currently supported versions of > >> Android > >> >> * Numerous issues with the current Geolocation plugin that may > >> >> involve a full re-write of the Geolocation plugins. > >> >> * The Web Geolocation may be more energy efficient than our own > >> >> Geolocation polling. > >> >> > >> >> What do people think about deprecating this plugin and recommending > >> >> that we use the browser's implementation on Android? > >> >> > >> >> Joe > >> >
