react-native-geolocation-service VS react-native-geolocation

Use this library https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-geolocation-service

I'm using the react-native-geolocation-service lib to get the user's current location, but it requires enabling swift support to work on ios: https://github.com/Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service/blob/master/docs/setup.md

No. You have to ask the maintainer for it. Or use this one: https://github.com/Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service

You can follow the more detail guide on their documentation. We already setup Location Permission for both iOS & Android. I the case for iOS we will run:

I tried Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service. But it doesn't seem identify whether the user has turned off or on location while using the app

react-native-geolocation-service

Yeah, i know but it's too much! I have a package named react-native-geolocation-service it's required to add swift file and the bridging header so after deleting it i got this size ( from 172 to 61 MB) 🙂

Then watchPosition from @react-native-community/geolocation is definitely the way to go. Here's a link to the example in their repo. This will constantly update the position state variable, which you can then send to a realtime service which other users are subscribed to and consuming. (Depending on your implementation, could be a websocket or some pub/sub service... I've worked with Pusher Channels before for something similar.)

I like this one https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

For location, you can use the [geolocation library](https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation). If for some reason the user blocks this permission, a neat little trick is to call this API, [https://ipapi.co/json/\]([https://ipapi.co/json/](https://ipapi.co/json/)). They will get the users Longitude and Latitude based on the requesting IP. Of course, that will be masked if they have a VPN running. But it is a second attempt at getting a location.

You can just use react-native-geolocation and it's watchPosition method to just listen to location changes and respond to that accordingly. If it comes within 10-15-20-50 meters from the college you can count that as arrival.

Here's some APIs to look into, maybe you could do searches based on libraries https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

@react-native-community/geolocation