[BUG] Sample Logs not recording because location is turned off about soil_logr

[KipCrossing]

From a user

I installed the Soil Mate app on my Android, but I seem to be having a small issue - maybe you’re aware? When I “+ Add” a Texture or Ground Cover Survey, I can fill out the form (very nice! love how easy!) but it doesn’t seem to save it. When I click “Add” it returned me to the list page, but it is empty. I’m not an Android developer so I’m not sure how to go about helping to debug… and maybe it’s something specific about my setup. But happy to help figure it out if you need.

We just released a new version and I had the same issue. Check if your device location is turned on. I need to request that the user turns it on if it’s turned off; will push it in the next update.

Let me know if that fixes it for you.

Ah that might be it! I generally have location turned off by default.

Now when I add it asked to give permission, which I did. But then it asked me to turn on the Google Location service, which I denied (I prefer to just use the device GPS and leave the disabled on my phone… trying to slowly ween myself from Google’s grips) :slight_smile:

I’m still seeing an empty list after that though. 🤔

Is it possible that the Google location service is required? In my experience that’s just an added layer, but I assume you’re just making a standard call to the device’s location service?

[KipCrossing]

Need to look into:

https://pub.dev/packages/geolocator

[KipCrossing]

For now, I'm handling it by:

  try {
    Position position = await Geolocator.getCurrentPosition();
    return position;
  } on Exception catch (_){
    Position position = await Geolocator.getCurrentPosition(forceAndroidLocationManager: true);
    return position;
  }

but SHOULD update pending changes decided in: Baseflow/flutter-geolocator#667