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Phonegap Geofencing plugin

Someone else got any phonegap geofencing plugin working?? I can't even install the ones I've found and those are only cordova plugins, not really phonegap. I though it should work but it does not.

Edit1:Watchposition is not an option beacause it does not work on non https, so a webview in file:// protocol certainly will not help on that.

Edit2: I need something to work in background while the app is in background, to stay running and get the coordinates of the geolocation.

Solution

  • I've made cordova-plugin-geofence work on a Phonegap project:

    Steps I made:

    Install Phonegap CLI

    npm install -g phonegap

    create a Phonegap CLI project

    phonegap create geofenceTest com.test.geofence geofenceTest

    Added Android 7.0.0 platform with 

    phonegap platform add android@7.0.0

    (you can also add 6.4.0, but the default one doesn't work if you have latest Android SDK tools)

    Added the plugin with 

    phonegap plugin add cordova-plugin-geofence

    In config.xml change this line (it had 14, but 16 is needed for latest Cordova)

    <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="16" />

    In index.js I added this in line 48

    window.geofence.initialize(function(){alert('init ok');}, function(){alert('init error');});

    Ran the app with:

    phonegap run android --device

    It asked for permissions and got the init ok alert

    All the Cordova plugins are Phonegap plugins, Phonegap apps are Cordova apps