iOS Simulator Crash requestAlwaysAuthorization() - ios

Question

My code is included below. It's a class intended to return the current location coordinates. The only output I get is "before after before after" - the print lines surrounding requestAlwaysAuthorization. And then the App crashes. The request dialog sometimes shows briefly, sometimes for a few seconds. On few occasions I even get to press "OK". The App always crashes. I've had this problem in xCode 7.0 and now xCode 7.0.1, iOS 9.0 in both cases. I have searched StackOverflow high and low, and most questions on this topic are for earlier versions of both xCode and iOS, and none of the posted solutions helped in my case. Hence, this question. I've also found YouTube tutorials that do basically what I'm doing, but no joy. I also have NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription in my plist, and I have Privacy - Location Usage Description and NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription for good measure. I have also tried sending a location from xCode via the Product\Scheme menu, and I have also tried using the simulator's Debug\Location. I've tried a few different location options for each. The simulator's Map app always seems to work. And Apple's LocateMe (written in Objective C) also works. Swift 2 (my code below) fails.
import CoreLocation
class TheCurrentLocation: NSObject, CLLocationManagerDelegate {
var locationManager: CLLocationManager!
var latitude: Double = 0
var longitude: Double = 0
var locationStatus: NSString = "Not Started"
func initialize() {
self.locationManager = CLLocationManager()
self.locationManager.delegate = self
self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyKilometer
print("before")
self.locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
// self.locationManager.requestWhenInUseAuthorization()
print("after")
} // END: initialize()
func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager, didFailWithError error: NSError) {
self.locationManager.stopUpdatingLocation()
print("ERRORS: " + error.localizedDescription )
} // END: locationManager delegate didFailWithError
func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager, didUpdateLocations locations: [CLLocation]) {
let location = locations.last
let center = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: location!.coordinate.latitude, longitude: location!.coordinate.longitude)
self.locationManager.stopUpdatingLocation()
print ("ta da")
self.latitude = center.latitude
self.longitude = center.longitude
} // END: locationManager delegate didUpdateLocations
func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager, didChangeAuthorizationStatus status: CLAuthorizationStatus) {
var isAllowed = false
switch status {
case CLAuthorizationStatus.Restricted:
locationStatus = "Restricted Access to Location"
case CLAuthorizationStatus.Denied:
locationStatus = "User Denied Access to Location"
case CLAuthorizationStatus.NotDetermined:
locationStatus = "Location Status Not Determined"
default:
locationStatus = "Allowed Access to Location"
isAllowed = true
} // END switch status
if (isAllowed == true) {
NSLog(String(locationStatus))
self.locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
} else {
NSLog(String(locationStatus))
}
} // END: locationManager delegate didChangeAuthorizationStatus
} // END: theCurrentLocation

Answer 1

I think I know what may be causing it. You cant have both NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription and NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription. Only one of them. I think I ran into this problem before. Try to remove one of them and see if that fixes it.