I am building an app in ReactJS that requires the user's location. In the browser (Chrome) on my PC I get a prompt once. If I decline, the prompt will not show again upon a page refresh. However, I will get the option to manually enable location.
When I open the same web page on my android phone in Chrome I neither get a prompt nor the option to enable location access manually. I have looked for solutions through Google but all of them rely on a prompt being automatically shown upon a navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition call, but it doesn't.
This is my code:
function getUserLocation() {
if ("geolocation" in navigator) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
function (position) {
setLocationDidMount(true);
console.log("got position");
},
function errorCallback(error) {
console.log(error);
navigator.permissions
.query({ name: "geolocation" })
.then(function (result) {
if (result.state === "granted") {
console.log(result.state);
//If granted then you can directly call your function here
} else if (result.state === "prompt") {
console.log(result.state);
} else if (result.state === "denied") {
console.log("location access denied by user");
//If denied then you have to show instructions to enable location
}
result.onchange = function () {
console.log(result.state);
};
});
},
{
timeout: 5000,
}
);
} else {
console.log("Not Available");
}
}
How to handle this problem? Btw, I'm not supposed to use React-Native.