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JavaScript Mobile Application Development
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JavaScript Mobile Application Development

by Hazem Saleh
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
6h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Geolocation

The geolocation plugin provides information about the device's current location that can be retrieved via Global Positioning System (GPS), network signals, and GSM/CDMA cell IDs. Note that there is no guarantee that the API returns the device's actual location.

In order to use the geolocation plugin in our Apache Cordova project, we need to use the following cordova plugin add command:

> cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-geolocation.git

Demo

In order to access the geolocation demo, you can click on the Geolocation list item. You will be introduced to the Geolocation page. You can click on the Get Current Position button in order to get your device's current position, as shown in the following screenshot: ...

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