I am attempting to simulate the process of going to a contact -> clicking share location -> selecting amount of time to share for all through code. I was wondering if this is possible and what the process is? I already have a system set up to get the current location and send the latitude and longitude in a Google Maps link through SMS, but I am looking for more of a real-time update on someones location. Thanks!
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Is it possible to share user's location to other user (of the same app)? I want to build a geolocation sharing app that pings/notifies user A once user B has crossed a certain radius. Doable with firebase or a similar third party? thank you in advance
Let me see if I understand, what you want to do is:
1 - If user A passes near user B (on the street), notify both users that they are nearby?
2 - Do you want to share the user's location through an application and send it to another user, either through a social network or email?
If it is option 1, you will have to obtain the latitude, longitude and accuracy of the users and keep sending and obtaining it from Firebase every so often (or through a socket connection like socket.io) and make a match and calculate the radius or distance between both points.
I want to share user's current location from my iPhone application. And plan to show a preview screen of recieved location, like location sharing feature in WhatsApp application.
Is there any in-built functionality available with MapKit or Google Map in iOS.
Any suggestions?
There's no direct feature available (except whatsapp developers), but here's an idea to do this
Get user current location using CLLocationManager see this answer
Refer this, https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
You've to pass users latitude and longitude which you've to use to create static map image URL
Load that URL in UIImageView in background (something like, SDWebImage)
You've to setup your required UI for this.
I am building an iOS app in Corona SDK and am trying to implement a map feature where the user can see where they are compared to where others with the app open are. What would be the best way to go at this?
I already wrote the code for finding the current location of the owner of the device, but how do I retrieve data from other users?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
This is very broad question, but basically you need a server (on the web) where each user's location gets stored while the app is open, and the app can request the location of other users specifically, at some time interval. Presumably you would need to have some form of rights management since every user would typically be interested in seeing only a small number of other users, and every user would want to have control over who can see their location.
One thing to remind users of is that the reported position is that of the device, not that of the user, and that it is the last reported position, not necessarily current (not all devices are on cellular network or wifi at every moment), so you'd also want a time-of-last-update to be shown with every location marker.
I'm developing a navigation app for iOS using Google Maps SDK. I need to give a route search functionality only within one city, otherwise show a warning message.
So, the question is: can someone please recommend me a way to detect whether a user is within a particular city?
Great thanks in advance.
You can find out user's current latitude and longitude.
In a google map you can plot a position with lat and long, and if its true for your city's coordinates - You are on.
A great documentation is here.
In my app, I am using CLLocationManager to get user's current location.
The problem is, most of the time, user would be indoor, or not very far from the building entrance when they launch my app for the very first time. As a result the location I get is not very accurate(more than 1km off).
Yet, at the same time, if I open either Google Map or Apple Map, they are able to display location with little discrepency(a few hundred meters). How they manage to do that ?