GPS on Windows Phone

montipayton · June 21, 2016, 7:41pm

Hello everyone.

I have a question. I’ve written the code to derive my position by GPS. This code works on iOS, but does not work on Windows Phone. So I ask: GPS is usable on windows phone or is not supported? I ask this because it is not written in the official documentation (https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/event/location/index.html#TOC), while for what concerns the use of mapView is clearly written the ban.

I leave the code used, which works on iOS.

 local Tentativo = 0 local function Posizionamento( event ) if ( event.errorCode or ( event.latitude == 0 and event.longitude == 0 ) ) then Tentativo = Tentativo + 1 if ( Tentativo \> 10 ) then native.showAlert( "Segnale GPS assente...", { "OK" } ) else timer.performWithDelay( 1000, Posizionamento ) end else LATI = event.latitude LONG = event.longitude print( "Latitudine: ", LATI ) print( "Longitudine: ", LONG ) end end Runtime:addEventListener( "location", Posizionamento ) ------------------------------------------------------------

If you can not use the GPS there is no other way to get its position?

Thank you in advance.

Scott_Harrison · June 21, 2016, 8:03pm

I don’t know if it is supported. I checked out the docs and it does not look like it. You should be able to in c# and .net to get gps if you really need gps. There is a tutorial similar to this here: https://coronalabs.com/blog/2015/02/24/tutorial-inputting-text-on-windows-phone-8/

Joshua_Quick · June 21, 2016, 11:05pm

Unfortunately, we do not support GPS on Windows Phone.

We list out what APIs are supported on Windows Phone here…

https://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/coronacards/wp8/support.html

If you need this feature, then you’ll have to implement it yourself using our .NET/Lua bridging APIs as documented here…

https://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/coronacards/wp8/communication.html

montipayton · June 22, 2016, 6:30pm

Thanks of responses and documentation links.

Scott_Harrison · June 21, 2016, 8:03pm