Part of this is similar to bug 1551686. In addition the fix proposed in that bug (which won't help in this case, though) we have two options: 1) completely get rid of caching in location-service 2) When the client specifies maximumAge as 0, oxide should keep discarding any position update which carries an old timestamp
I think that implementing #2 is a good thing regardless of #1, so I'd suggest that at least this part would be fixed in Oxide. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604446 Title: getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS Status in Oxide: New Status in webapps-sprint: New Status in location-service package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: A browser based application that wants to use position can call getCurrentPosition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition or watchPosition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/watchPosition maps (such as google maps) and navigation applications will typically use watchPosition which will cause location services to turn on the GPS chip and get a new location for the device. non-map applications that just want location aware context for things such as weather or local stores e.g. https://www.aldi.co.uk/store-finder do not subscribe to updates with watchPosition. They just call getCurrentPosition and expect a decent enough position to use. Ubuntu Touch returns the last known position from the cache when getCurrentPosition is called, and then fails to turn on the GPS. It should block until it has a decent position and return good data to the success callback. It certainly shouldn't return a bad position and then fail to make an effort to get a good position. The result of this bug is that you can go to a location aware web page, it will think you are somewhere else entirely, and refreshing will not improve the situation, you have to open a mapping application that uses watchPosition and wait for a fix to be obtained before going back to your location aware web page and refreshing to get good data. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+bug/1604446/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
