iOS 11 Location Permissions Plugin for Apache Cordova

Cordova / PhoneGap Plugin Permission Settings for NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription and NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription in iOS 11 by adding a declaration to the Info.plist file

Install

Latest published version on npm (with Cordova CLI >= 5.0.0)

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-ios-location-permissions --save

Latest version from GitHub

cordova plugin add https://github.com/niconaso/cordova-plugin-ios-location-permissions.git --save

Customising the message prompts

On installation you can customise the prompts shown by setting the following variables on installation.

• LOCATION_WHEN_IN_USAGE_DESCRIPTION for NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription
• LOCATION_ALWAYS_AND_WHEN_IN_USAGE_DESCRIPTION for NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription

For example:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-ios-location-permissions --variable LOCATION_WHEN_IN_USAGE_DESCRIPTION="your usage message" --variable LOCATION_ALWAYS_AND_WHEN_IN_USAGE_DESCRIPTION="your usage message" --save

Usage

For the changes to plugin.xml to take effect, you must refresh the ios.json file (inside the /plugin folder):

$ cordova platform rm ios
$ cordova platform add ios

Platforms

Applies to iOS 10/11 only.

License

[MIT License]