expo-location

v8.3.0

Allows reading geolocation information from the device. Your app can poll for the current location or subscribe to location update events.

NPM
Website
MIT
Latest version published 3 months ago
    npm install expo-location

Package Health Score

85 / 100
  • Popularity
    Influential project
  • Maintenance
    Sustainable
  • Security
    No known security issues
  • Community
    Active

Popularity

Influential project
Weekly Downloads (106,852)
Dependents
799
GitHub Stars
12.05K
Forks
1.92K
Contributors
418

The npm package expo-location receives a total of 106,852 downloads a week. As such, we scored expo-location popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package expo-location, we found that it has been starred 12,052 times, and that 799 other projects on the ecosystem are dependent on it.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for recent versions

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License Risks

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Security Policy
Yes
All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

You can connect your project's repository to Snyk to stay up to date on security alerts and receive automatic fix pull requests. 

    # Install the Snyk CLI and test your project
npm i snyk && snyk test expo-location
Fix it in your project with Snyk!

Maintenance

Sustainable
Commit Frequency
Open Issues
719
Merged PR
3.32K
Open PR
129
Last Commit
3 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of expo-location based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that expo-location demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active
Readme.md
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Contributing.md
No
Code of Conduct
No
Contributors
418
Funding
No
License
MIT

A good and healthy external contribution signal for expo-location project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

We found a way for you to contribute to the project! Looks like expo-location is missing a Code of Conduct.

Package

Node.js Compatibility
not defined
Age
2 years
Dependencies
1 Direct / 3 Total
Versions
26
Install Size
204 kB
Dist-tags
2
# of Files
46
Maintainers
23
TS Typings
No

We detected a total of 3 direct & transitive dependencies for expo-location. See the full dependency tree of expo-location

expo-location has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

expo-location

Allows reading geolocation information from the device. Your app can poll for the current location or subscribe to location update events.

API documentation

Installation in managed Expo projects

For managed managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.

Installation in bare React Native projects

For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the react-native-unimodules package before continuing.

Add the package to your npm dependencies

expo install expo-location

Configure for iOS

Add NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription, NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription and NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription keys to your Info.plist:

<key>NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location</string>
<key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location</string>
<key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location</string>

Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.

Configure for Android

Add android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permissions to your manifest (android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml):

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.

expo-location versions

Dist-Tags for expo-location
latest next
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9.0.0 18 August 2020 * MIT 0
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8.3.0 16 July 2020 * MIT 1
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8.2.1 29 May 2020 * MIT 1
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expo-location dependencies

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Last updated on 19 October-2020, at 06:59 (UTC).