I am trying to make Geolocation work in an Android webview to no avail; Geolocation works fine on browsers on the production site, but navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() always returns an empty value.
I believe it has something to do with the WebView itself, since the permissions for using Geolocation are already granted for the app.
How can I make Geolocation work inside the WebView?
Here is my WebView initializer:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
client = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
.addApi(AppIndex.API)
.addApi(LocationServices.API)
.build();
askForPermission(Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION,LOCATION);
getSupportActionBar().hide();
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
//getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
//getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
//getWindow().setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.holo_red_dark));
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
myWebView.setWebViewClient(new GeoWebViewClient());
myWebView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
myWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
myWebView.getSettings().setDatabaseEnabled(true);
myWebView.getSettings().setGeolocationEnabled(true);
myWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
myWebView.getSettings().setMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false);
myWebView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
myWebView.setWebChromeClient(new GeoWebChromeClient());
myWebView.loadUrl("https://obscure-dusk-27124.herokuapp.com");
if (!DetectConnection.checkInternetConnection(this)) {
myWebView.loadUrl("about:blank");
}
myWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient(){
// Need to accept permissions to use the camera
@Override
public void onPermissionRequest(final PermissionRequest request) {
request.grant(request.getResources());
}
});
}