Trying to get current location, but LocationManager delegate never get called - ios

Question

here is my code, i am trying to get my current longtitude and latitude,
so my location will be display on map view.
however, the location manager delegate never get called, so i always getting longitude = 0.0000 and latitude = 0.0000.....
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>
#import <CoreLocation/CoreLocation.h>
#interface MapViewController : UIViewController <CLLocationManagerDelegate>
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet MKMapView *mapView;
#property(retain,nonatomic)CLLocationManager *locationManager;
#property(assign,nonatomic)float longitude;
#property(assign,nonatomic)float latitude;
#end
and this is the implementation file:
#import "MapViewController.h"
#define METERS_PER_MILE 1609.344
#interface MapViewController ()
#end
#implementation MapViewController
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
// Custom initialization
}
return self;
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
[self getCurrentLocation];
CLLocationCoordinate2D zoomLocation;
zoomLocation.latitude = self.latitude;
zoomLocation.longitude = self.longitude;
MKCoordinateRegion viewRegion = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(zoomLocation, 0.5*METERS_PER_MILE, 0.5*METERS_PER_MILE);
[self.mapView setRegion:viewRegion animated:YES];
NSLog(#"longitu
de %f", self.longitude);
NSLog(#"latitude %f", self.latitude);
}
-(void)getCurrentLocation
{
self.locationManager.delegate = self;
self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
[self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
- (void)viewDidUnload {
[self setMapView:nil];
[super viewDidUnload];
}
-(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
NSLog(#"didFailWithError: %#", error);
UIAlertView *errorAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Error" message:#"Failed to get your location" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[errorAlert show];
}
-(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateLocations:(NSArray *)locations
{
NSLog(#"didUpdateToLocation: %#", [locations lastObject]);
CLLocation *currentLocation = [locations lastObject];
if (currentLocation != nil) {
self.longitude = currentLocation.coordinate.longitude;
self.latitude = currentLocation.coordinate.latitude;
NSLog(#"cal longitude %f", self.longitude);
NSLog(#"cal latitude %f", self.latitude);
}
}
#end
can anyone give me some advise please. cheers

Answer 1

May be you are running the code on simulator and SDK is below 6.0. In this case you get only 0.0000 as latitude and longitude. And make sure that application is granted access to device location.
If you just want to get current location then do the following :
-(void)getCurrentLocation
{
self.locationManager.delegate = self;
self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
[self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
CLLocation currentLocation = self.locationManager.location;
[self.locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];
}
BTW, never use self when initialize any object. Because doing this creates 2 object.
first object is created by right side of this line self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];. Second object is created when setter method is called by left side of the same line, to assign an object to locationManager variable.