In this Ionic 5 tutorial, we’ll discuss how to add Geolocation functionality to get current location in the form of coordinates like latitude, longitude and accuracy of the device. Also, we’ll add the Geocoder plugin in the application to convert coordinates into a readable physical address.
Fetching location of a device plays a great role in a number of real-world applications around us. In one or the other task, we may need coordinates, for example, to deliver some items, book a cab, check the weather at the current location etc.
Hybrid Application we can easily access native features of a device using Cordova plugin and Native wrappers for Ionic Framework. We’ll create an example Ionic 5 application and implement Geolocation service to get Lattitude, Longitude, Accuracy of location, Speed, Altitude etc of the device. After we have Latitude and Longitude, these can be used to get Addresses available on these coordinates. To fetch address from coordinates of the device, we use Geocoder service.