Titanium/ Appcelerator/ Alloy: Unable to get current location despite success returning true - ios

Question

I am running the following code using the iPhone 4s simulater:
Ti.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(e){
Ti.API.log(JSON.stringify(e));
});
A formatted version of the output of the above gives the following information:
{
"code": 0,
"type":"location",
"error":"The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCLErrorDomain error 0.)",
"source":{},
"success":true
}
There seems to be quite contradictory information. It says success is true yet gives an error message.
Furthermore, according to the Location Results Docs, it says that if success is true, it should return a coords field. Yet the above does not have coords on it.
Please also note both of the following returns true so its not a permission issue:
Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled;
Ti.Geolocation.hasLocationPermissions(Ti.Geolocation.AUTHORIZATION_ALWAYS);

Answer 1

There are 2 things to take notes of:
locationServicesEnabled property for device
hasLocationPermissions method
First of all, you will need to check for 1st property to make sure that the device location is on.
Then you will check for hasLocationPermissions because this can be true even the device location is not on, which I think is your case.
Sample code for this:
var authType = Ti.Geolocation. AUTHORIZATION_ALWAYS;
if (Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled) {
if (Ti.Geolocation.hasLocationPermissions(authType)) {
// voila...
} else {
Ti.Geolocation.requestLocationPermissions(authType, function (e) {
if (e.success) {
alert('voila...');
}
});
}
} else {
alert('Please turn on your device's location');
}