geolocator_android

• feat(android): extract vertical speed from FusedLocationProvider extras

Add verticalSpeed and verticalSpeedAccuracy extraction from Android
location extras in LocationMapper, with safe Float/Double casting,
NaN/Infinity rejection, negative accuracy filtering, and multi-key
fallback.

Update AndroidPosition to forward all has*/verticalSpeed fields to
the platform interface Position superclass.

Changes:

• LocationMapper.java: add getDoubleExtra() safe extraction method
• NmeaClient.java: add vertical speed keys to NMEA extras
• LocationMapperTest.java: Java unit tests (new file)
• android_position.dart: forward has* flags and vertical speed
• geolocator_android_test.dart: Dart tests for AndroidPosition

Depends on: geolocator_platform_interface v4.4.0 (PR #1799)

• fix(android): align vertical speed mapper test and clarify source

• fix(android): compile mapper and expose speed availability in example

• test(android): verify optional vertical speed mapping on device

Updates Android Gradle Plugin to 9.3.1

Maintenance, updates dependencies

Update geolocator_android to version 5.0.2

• Bump flutter_lints to version 5.0.0

• Bump androidx.core:core to version 1.16.0

• BREAKING CHANGE: for Flutter 3.27.0 and below. Make sure you'll upgrade Flutter to 3.29.0 or above before using this version.

• Fixes deprecation warnings

• Updates compileSDKVersion to 35
• Updates Fixed warnings in Android package and Android example project
• Updates gradle version
• Updates com.android.application version to 8.7.0

• Fixes a bug where the plugin throws an exception while requesting locations updates with coarse location permission only.

• Adds support to read NMEA messages from other satellites constellations.
• Read the MSL altitude directly from the Android location starting with API 34.
• Always listen to NMEA message to get GPS position fix data.
• Updates com.google.android.gms:play-services-location to version 21.2.0.
• Updates androidx.core:core to version 1.13.0.

• Fixes a bug where location stream is not automatically started when enabling the location services.

• Fixes a bug where the getPositionStream was not informed of the location service resolution result. This resulted in a stream that was kept open indefinitely.

• Adds the notificationChannelName field to the ForegroundNotificationConfig class, allowing to override the channel name.
• Reverts com.google.android.gms:play-services-location to version 21.0.1. Version 21.1.0 forces users to update AGP to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to 1.9.0 which is not inline with stable Flutter version.

• Reverts androidx.core:core to version 1.9.0.

• Fixes a bug where the Android activity is leaked when the activiy is detached from the Flutter application.

• Fixes a bug where the Position class properties were not set correctly.

• Creates AndroidPosition, a child class of Position with Android specific properties.
• Adds the satelliteCount and satellitesUsedInFix to AndroidPosition.

• Fixes a bug where getPositionStream caused an java.lang.IllegalStateException: passive location requests must have an explicit minimum update interval because minUpdateIntervalMillis property in location request was set to -1 by default

• Adds color to ForegroundNotificationConfig to set the color of the notification icon.

• Removes deprecated support for Android V1 embedding from the JAVA code base. Note that the geolocator's Flutter version restrictions already don't support V1 embedding anymore.
• Registers location services state change broadcast receiver with required exported flags

• Updates the following dependencies:
  • uuid package from ^3.0.7 to ^4.1.0
  • flutter_lints from ^2.0.0 to ^3.0.0

• Suppresses a deprecation warning for LocationListenerCompat.onStatusChanged when building for Android.

• Includes altitudeAccuracy and headingAccuracy in Position.

• Fixes a bug where location readings were very inaccurate when using forceLocationManager: true.

• Fixes a bug where the position stream was unnecessarily filtered when using forceLocationManager: true.

• Adds back the applicationId property of the AndroidManifest.xml file to keep backwardscompatibility with older applications that still rely on Gradle version <7.0.

• Fixes a bug where the stopForeground method was called with the wrong constant, resulting in a build time error.
• Fixes deprecation warnings on Android API 33.

• Introduces the setOngoing flag in ForegroundNotificationConfig to make notification persistent.

• Resolves an issue where the location service failed to stop properly upon timeout of the location stream.

• Adds compatibility with Android Gradle Plugin 8.0.

• Fixes an issue where checking location service availability hangs indefinately.

• Updates Play Services Location library

• Fix a bug where the location service would not stop correctly when the location stream is cancelled.

• Export AndroidResource class at geolocator_android.at.

• Fix a bug where the location service would stop if we have multiple flutter engines connected and one disconnects

• Moves the Android complile arguments to the example build.gradle so that is not forces the arguments on consumers of the package.

• Adds the ability to report altitude as MSL obtained from NMEA messages when available.

• Fix nullpointer in MethodCallHandlerImpl.getLocationAccuracy

• Migrates to Dart SDK 2.15.0 and Flutter 2.8.0.

IMPORTANT: when updating to version 4.0.0 make sure to also set the compileSdkVersion in the android/app/build.gradle file to 33.

• Set android compileSdkVersion to 33 (Android 13);
• Fixed the deprecation warnings/errors which caused the compilation to fail when using compileSdkVersion 33.
• Make sure the example app compiles against Android SDK 33.

• Use java.security.SecureRandom instead of java.util.Random to ensure the ActivityRequest identifier is generated in a cryptographically strong fasion.

• Raises minimum Dart version to 2.17 and Flutter version to 3.0.0.
• Removes deprecated android.enableR8 property from gradle properties.
• Updates the example application to request permissions when start listening to the position stream.

• Ensures that when Google mobile services are globally excluded as a dependency to automatically fallback to the Android LocationManager.

• Fixes repository URL of the package.

• Switches to a package-internal implementation of the platform interface.

• Fixes potential cast exceptions when connecting to the location service.

• Fixes support for retrieving the position stream in the absence of an Android activity.

• Fixes a bug introduced in 3.1.2 where unregistering the status location receiver throws an IllegalArgumentException.

• Fixes an issue with the location status service not unregistering the status receiver.

• Fixes an issue with the foreground service connection not getting unbound correctly.

• Adds support to make a foreground service and continue processing location updates when the application is moved into the background.

• Fixes Android embedding v2 warning when compiling the example App.

• Added a default intervalDuration value of 5000ms to prevent the getCurrentPosition method to return a cached Location.

• Updated to the latest version of the geolocator_platform_interface': 4.0.0`.

• Replace usage of unofficial GMS library

• Removed implicit request for permissions when getting a position.
• Added the [AndroidOptions] class to the lib directory.
• Added the forceLocationManager property to the [AndroidOptions] instance.

• Adds intervalDuration to the AndroidSettings class.

• Fixes NPE when accessing the position stream.