Is using GPS in Anvil possible?

[david.wylie]

I stumbled on this code snippet on Stack Overflow, which made me wonder if that library is available to Anvil? If not, is there another way to get my gps location inside an Anvil app?

import android
droid = android.Android()
loc = droid.readLocation()
lattitude = loc.result['network']['latitude']
longitude = loc.result['network']['longitude']
print(lattitude, longitude )

I saw this thread, but it looks like I’d have to download another app to use it :
https://anvil.works/forum/t/gps-tracking-and-google-maps/857/2?u=david.wylie

[meredydd]

Here’s an example, using the Web Location API - complete with a Custom Component:

Getting User's Location from Mobile Device

We don’t have native support for this in Anvil yet, but you can request access to the user’s location from Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation You could then use anvil.call() to call from Javascript into Anvil (quick-and-dirty guide here) to share the user’s location. (Ideally, I would create a custom component that sets up a callback in Javascript via watchPosition(), and then raises an event with the latitude and longitude.)

[david.wylie]

My forum searching skills are appalling. I even read that post a while back.

Thanks, @meredydd.

(worse than that - I commented on it! I’m 107 you know …)