ELLocation

Note: This framework has been deprecated. It is no longer being actively maintained and will not be updated for future versions of Swift or iOS.

ELLocation is a wrapper around iOS's location services. Its goal is to provide convenient and concise wrappers to access CLLocationManager and friends.

Requirements

ELLocation requires Swift 2.2, Xcode 7.3 and ELFoundation.

Electrode-iOS frameworks are designed to live side-by-side in the file system, like so:

\MyProject
\MyProject\ELFoundation
\MyProject\ELLocation

Installation

Install by adding ELLocation.xcodeproj to your project and configuring your target to link ELLocation.framework.

Usage

ELLocation can be used for authorizing for location services and for setting up an object to receive location updates.

Authorization

Important Note: iOS requires that you add NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription and/or NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription key to the Info.plist file for your app as per your needs. If you miss this step, nothing will work and there will be no message to indicate why.

iOS requires an app to request authorization from the user for the kind of location services it needs to use. With ELLocation the API looks like the following:

if let anError = LocationAuthorizationService().requestAuthorization(.WhenInUse) {
    //TODO: Client needs to process error and re-request auth
} else {
    startLocationUpdates()
}

Location Updates

In order for a caller to get location updates it must do the following:

func startLocationUpdates() {
    // Set up the request
    let request = LocationUpdateRequest(accuracy: .Good) { (success, location, error) -> Void in
        if success {
            if let actualLocation = location {
                print("LISTENER 1: success! location is (\(actualLocation.coordinate.latitude), \(actualLocation.coordinate.longitude))")
            }
        } else {
            if let theError = error {
                print("LISTENER 1: error is \(theError.localizedDescription)")
            }
        }
    }
    
    // Register the listener
    if let addListenerError = LocationUpdateService().registerListener(self, request: request) {
        print("LISTENER 1: error in adding the listener. error is \(addListenerError.localizedDescription)")
    } else {
        print("LISTENER 1 ADDED")
    }
}

Note that there can be an error in setting up the request and that is returned right away rather than in the handler block. You should check for that.

It is also possible to limit the callback frequency using the updateFrequency parameter of LocationUpdateRequest like so:

let request = LocationUpdateRequest(accuracy: .Good, updateFrequency: .ChangesOnly, ...)

Combining accuracy: .Coarse with updateFrequency: .ChangesOnly, along with requestAuthorization(.Always) yields the lowest battery usage, at the expense of less accurate location data and infrequent updates.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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