Geolocation won't work anymore

ionic-v1
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For anyone looking at this problem in the future, the geolocation methods are deprecated in Chromium version 50 and higher.

Which means it affects:

  • ionic serve if tested on Chrome/Chromium v50+.
    Solution: use another browser or older Chromium.

  • Crosswalk v20 and higher, on device, while using LiveReload
    Solution 1: don’t use LiveReload for testing geolocation. It works without it: try ionic run android without -l flag
    Solution 2: use older Crosswalk - v19 of Crosswalk is using Chromium v49, i.e. one version before deprecation. This can be achieved by adjusting XWALK_VERSION entry in your config.xml (see also):

  <plugin name="cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview" spec="https://github.com/crosswalk-project/cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview.git">
    <variable name="XWALK_VERSION" value="19"/>
    <variable name="XWALK_LITEVERSION" value="xwalk_core_library_canary:17+"/>
    <variable name="XWALK_COMMANDLINE" value="--disable-pull-to-refresh-effect"/>
    <variable name="XWALK_MODE" value="embedded"/>
    <variable name="XWALK_MULTIPLEAPK" value="true"/>
  </plugin>
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