expo-location

v16.3.0

Allows reading geolocation information from the device. Your app can poll for the current location or subscribe to location update events. For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 19 days ago

License: MIT

NPM

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Package Health Score

92 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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Security

No known security issues

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

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
16.3.0	\|	09/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
16.2.1	\|	08/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
16.1.0	\|	07/2023	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
15.3.0	\|	06/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
14.3.0	\|	07/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

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Popularity

Popular

Weekly Downloads (50,430)

GitHub Stars: 23.47K
Forks: 4.29K
Contributors: 410

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package expo-location receives a total of 50,430 downloads a week. As such, we scored expo-location popularity level to be Popular.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package expo-location, we found that it has been starred 23,471 times.

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

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 410
Funding: No

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.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 340
Open PR: 243
Last Release: 19 days ago
Last Commit: 12 hours 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 Healthy.

We found that expo-location demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 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.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: not defined

Age: 5 years
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 63
Install Size: 342 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 83
Maintainers: 30
TS Typings: Yes

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.

Not sure how to use expo-location?

To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that expo-location is being used within popular public projects.

flow-typed / flow-typed / definitions / npm / expo-location_v5.x.x / flow_v0.104.x- / test_expo-location.js View on Github

it('should raise an error when call function with invalid arguments', () => {
    // $ExpectError: first argument is required
    startLocationUpdatesAsync();

    // $ExpectError: first argument mush be a string
    startLocationUpdatesAsync(1337);

    // $ExpectError: second argument must be an object
    startLocationUpdatesAsync('taskName', 69);

    startLocationUpdatesAsync('taskName', {
      // $ExpectError: invalid accuracy
      accuracy: 1,
      // $ExpectError: invalid activityType
      activityType: 1,

      // $ExpectError: `notificationTitle` is required props
      foregroundService: { notificationBody: 'str' },
    });
  });
});

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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 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 expo package before continuing.

Add the package to your npm dependencies

npx expo install expo-location

Configure for iOS

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

NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription
Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location
NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location
NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription
Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use your location

Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.

Configure for Android

This module requires the permissions for approximate and exact device location. It also needs the foreground service permission to subscribe to location updates, while the app is in use. These permissions are automatically added.

> Note: on Android, you have to submit your app for review and request access to use the background location permission.

Contributing

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

expo-location development dependencies

expo-module-scripts

FAQs

What is expo-location?

Allows reading geolocation information from the device. Your app can poll for the current location or subscribe to loca... Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for expo-location, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is expo-location popular?

The npm package expo-location receives a total of 50,430 weekly downloads. As such, expo-location popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is expo-location well maintained?

We found that expo-location demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 410 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is expo-location safe to use?

The npm package expo-location was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 22 September-2023, at 19:41 (UTC).

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