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From: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:43:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Android] Deprecation of Geolocation on Android
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Cc: "bowserj@apache.org" <bowserj@apache.org>
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Is the plugin still needed on older android versions? e.g. we might
want to have it be a no-op based on the android version instead of
deleting it?

Android geolocation seems to have gone Play Services, so another
option would be to make the plugin use that instead of the OS
geolocation in order to provide some utility.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:
> The index.html issue was iOS, not sure if it still exists.
>
> Windows Phone 7+8 use the browser based geolocation as they have
> implemented the spec,  However because of the way permissions are managed,
> there is a native do-nothing stub that simply signal that Location Services
> are required.
> Windows8 does some massaging of the api to the WinJS version, and adds the
> permissions to the project.
>
> I just spoke ( physically ) with Joe, and with this change, the geolocation
> plugin would still exist for Android, it would just add the permission to
> the app.  So, Android's plugin would be almost identical to WP7+8 with this
> change.
>
> +1 from me, assuming everything will just work.
>
>
>
> @purplecabbage
> risingj.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It never did on Android, you can see this in Mobile-Spec.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
>> > Does the permission dialogue still ask for index.html ?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Friday, January 10, 2014, Joe Bowser wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Due to numerous issues found in Geolocation, combined with an increase
>> >> in reliability of the Web Geolocation, I'm wanting to see us EOL the
>> >> Geolocation plugin.
>> >>
>> >> Reasons for this include:
>> >>  * Support for Geolocation on all currently supported versions of
>> Android
>> >>  * Numerous issues with the current Geolocation plugin that may
>> >> involve a full re-write of the Geolocation plugins.
>> >>  * The Web Geolocation may be more energy efficient than our own
>> >> Geolocation polling.
>> >>
>> >> What do people think about deprecating this plugin and recommending
>> >> that we use the browser's implementation on Android?
>> >>
>> >> Joe
>>