Qt Positioning not working in iOS

m_andrej

I tried again with a Hello world application from scratch. It still doesn't work. I didn't write a particular info.plist, so it was autogenerated by qmake. Application starts normally, but I don't get any dialog asking for permission to provide location and of course positionUpdated() still isn't emitted.

I tried both real device and iOS Simulator with simulated location.
Any ideas what else I should try?

kolegs

Maybe try examples available, like: "Weather Info"?

m_andrej

Weather info doesn't work either. It just shows "Loading weather data" indefinitely.

SGaist

What version of iOS and Xcode are you using ? (latest can change pretty quickly)

m_andrej

I have Xcode 7.1.1 and iOS 9.1 both on device and simulator. I added this information to the first post.

I already verified that I can make a Hello World iOS app in XCode, which successfully obtains user position using native code (CLLocationManager).

ldanzinger

You might need to add the following keys to your plist

NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription

You also may need to add either of the following to your project file

QT += positioning sensors

m_andrej

I already implemented this using native code. But thanks. Maybe this helps somebody else.

BTW I used the class CLLocationManager-blocks (https://github.com/axldyb/CLLocationManager-blocks). Thanks to this I was able to implement it by a brief Objective-C snippet in a QObject subclass. The position-update-handler was just an objective-C Block rather than Delegate. Writing the Delegate would have required to subclass NSObject.

Tavis

@ldanzinger All you need to do in order to get QTPositioning to work is add <key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
to your info.plist file.

create an iOS folder in the root of your project and place your info.plist file in there then add the following to you .pro file

ios {
QMAKE_INFO_PLIST = ios/Info.plist
}

This fixes the geoflickr example qt quick app.

beak

IOS10.2
work only simulator, on device not work

QGeoPositionInfoSource::createDefaultSource(0) is NULL

SGaist

Did you got asked for permission ?

ealltech

I ask for the location at the begining of the program so it shows same time application starts.
Btw I did not add anything to my Info.plist, so I am not sure if it is required

beak

@SGaist
ask permision only simulator
on real device dont ask

SGaist

Then check that you allowed the GPS to be used.

beak

@SGaist where check?
in device Settings->Privacy->Location Service
there is no my application

SGaist

Then delete the application from your device and install it again. Do not just re-run your application, nuke it from the device before starting it again.