geolocator_android 4.5.5

Geolocation plugin for Flutter. This plugin provides the Android implementation for the geolocator.

4.5.5

• Fixes a bug where location stream is not automatically started when enabling the location services.

4.5.4

• Fixes a bug where the getPositionStream was not informed of the location service resolution result. This resulted in a stream that was kept open indefinitely.

4.5.3+1

• Reverts androidx.core:core to version 1.9.0.

4.5.3

• Adds the notificationChannelName field to the ForegroundNotificationConfig class, allowing to override the channel name.
• Reverts com.google.android.gms:play-services-location to version 21.0.1. Version 21.1.0 forces users to update AGP to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to 1.9.0 which is not inline with stable Flutter version.

4.5.2

• Fixes a bug where the Android activity is leaked when the activiy is detached from the Flutter application.

4.5.1

• Fixes a bug where the Position class properties were not set correctly.

4.5.0

• Creates AndroidPosition, a child class of Position with Android specific properties.
• Adds the satelliteCount and satellitesUsedInFix to AndroidPosition.

4.4.1

• Fixes a bug where getPositionStream caused an java.lang.IllegalStateException: passive location requests must have an explicit minimum update interval because minUpdateIntervalMillis property in location request was set to -1 by default

4.4.0

• Adds color to ForegroundNotificationConfig to set the color of the notification icon.

4.3.3

• Removes deprecated support for Android V1 embedding from the JAVA code base. Note that the geolocator's Flutter version restrictions already don't support V1 embedding anymore.
• Registers location services state change broadcast receiver with required exported flags

4.3.2

• Updates the following dependencies:
  • uuid package from ^3.0.7 to ^4.1.0
  • flutter_lints from ^2.0.0 to ^3.0.0

4.3.1

• Suppresses a deprecation warning for LocationListenerCompat.onStatusChanged when building for Android.

4.3.0

• Includes altitudeAccuracy and headingAccuracy in Position.

4.2.4

• Fixes a bug where location readings were very inaccurate when using forceLocationManager: true.

4.2.3

• Fixes a bug where the position stream was unnecessarily filtered when using forceLocationManager: true.

4.2.2

• Adds back the applicationId property of the AndroidManifest.xml file to keep backwardscompatibility with older applications that still rely on Gradle version <7.0.

4.2.1

• Fixes a bug where the stopForeground method was called with the wrong constant, resulting in a build time error.
• Fixes deprecation warnings on Android API 33.

4.2.0

• Introduces the setOngoing flag in ForegroundNotificationConfig to make notification persistent.

4.1.9

• Resolves an issue where the location service failed to stop properly upon timeout of the location stream.

4.1.8

• Adds compatibility with Android Gradle Plugin 8.0.

4.1.7

• Fixes an issue where checking location service availability hangs indefinately.

4.1.6

• Updates Play Services Location library

4.1.5

• Mark geolocator_android as implementation of geolocator

4.1.4

• Fix a bug where the location service would not stop correctly when the location stream is cancelled.

4.1.3

• Export AndroidResource class at geolocator_android.at.

4.1.2

• Fix a bug where the location service would stop if we have multiple flutter engines connected and one disconnects

4.1.1

• Moves the Android complile arguments to the example build.gradle so that is not forces the arguments on consumers of the package.

4.1.0

• Adds the ability to report altitude as MSL obtained from NMEA messages when available.

4.0.2

• Fix nullpointer in MethodCallHandlerImpl.getLocationAccuracy

4.0.1

• Migrates to Dart SDK 2.15.0 and Flutter 2.8.0.

4.0.0

IMPORTANT: when updating to version 4.0.0 make sure to also set the compileSdkVersion in the android/app/build.gradle file to 33.

• Set android compileSdkVersion to 33 (Android 13);
• Fixed the deprecation warnings/errors which caused the compilation to fail when using compileSdkVersion 33.
• Make sure the example app compiles against Android SDK 33.

3.2.1

• Use java.security.SecureRandom instead of java.util.Random to ensure the ActivityRequest identifier is generated in a cryptographically strong fasion.

3.2.0

• Raises minimum Dart version to 2.17 and Flutter version to 3.0.0.
• Removes deprecated android.enableR8 property from gradle properties.
• Updates the example application to request permissions when start listening to the position stream.

3.1.8

• Ensures that when Google mobile services are globally excluded as a dependency to automatically fallback to the Android LocationManager.

3.1.7

• Fixes repository URL of the package.

3.1.6

• Switches to a package-internal implementation of the platform interface.

3.1.5

• Fixes potential cast exceptions when connecting to the location service.

3.1.4

• Fixes support for retrieving the position stream in the absence of an Android activity.

3.1.3

• Fixes a bug introduced in 3.1.2 where unregistering the status location receiver throws an IllegalArgumentException.

3.1.2

• Fixes an issue with the location status service not unregistering the status receiver.

3.1.1

• Fixes an issue with the foreground service connection not getting unbound correctly.

3.1.0

• Adds support to make a foreground service and continue processing location updates when the application is moved into the background.

3.0.4

• Fixes Android embedding v2 warning when compiling the example App.

3.0.3

• Added a default intervalDuration value of 5000ms to prevent the getCurrentPosition method to return a cached Location.

3.0.2

• Updated to the latest version of the geolocator_platform_interface': 4.0.0`.

3.0.1

• Replace usage of unofficial GMS library

3.0.0+4

• Resolve merge conflict.

3.0.0+3

• Fixes cast exception when converting Integer to Long.

3.0.0+2

• Fixes NPE when accessing the position stream.

3.0.0+1

• Adds intervalDuration to the AndroidSettings class.

3.0.0

• Removed implicit request for permissions when getting a position.
• Added the [AndroidOptions] class to the lib directory.
• Added the forceLocationManager property to the [AndroidOptions] instance.

2.1.0

• Added Approximate Location support for Android 12;
• Added support to request the location accuracy on Android through the Geolocator.getLocationAccuracy() method;
• Make sure the getServiceStatusStream method returns an event when initially the Service Status is enabled on Android Devices (see issue#812.

2.0.0

IMPORTANT: when updating to version 2.0.0 make sure to also set the compileSdkVersion in the app/build.gradle file to 31.

• Set Android compileSdkVersion to 31 (Android 12);
• Fixed the deprecation warnings/errors which caused the flutter build appbundle to fail when using compileSdkVersion 31.

1.0.2

• Fixed didChangeAppLifecycleState goes into a loop after location request (see issue: https://github.com/Baseflow/flutter-geolocator/issues/816).

1.0.1

• Migrate to mavenCentral as jFrog has sunset jCenter ( see official announcement for more details);
• Upgrade to Gradle 4.1.0 to stay in sync with current stable version of Flutter.

1.0.0

• Initial open source release.