Check type of location enabled

Capacitor
1

How can one check which type of Geolocation is enabled/granted on Android? particularly background.

In Sentry I can see this information but the Geolocation plugin doesn’t distinguish which one is granted.
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If you are using the Capacitor Geolocation plugin, you can try this:

const checkAppPermissions = async () => {
  const permissions = await Geolocation.checkPermissions()
  if (permissions.location === 'granted') {
    console.log("you have both ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permissions!")
  } else if (permissions.coarseLocation === 'granted') {
    console.log("you have ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission only!")
  } else {
    console.log("you don't have any permission!")
  }
}
4

What about the background? which is what I’m interested in

5

They don’t mention background permission in their documentation. They only have location and coarselocation permissions in GeolocationPermissionType.

export declare type GeolocationPermissionType = 'location' | 'coarseLocation';

Maybe you should look for another plugin

6

I have, no luck. even the plugins performing background task checks for location only, they do not specify or give the ability to check what was granted

7

Capacitor’s Geolocation plugin doesn’t work in the background, so that’s why it doesn’t request nor provide the status of background geolocation permission.

If you are using a background geolocation plugin and it doesn’t provide that information, you can try to request the feature to the plugin author, or you can search for a permissions plugin (there is a cordova one that should work, not sure if there is a Capacitor one too)

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