How to get user's location in flutter's official mapbox package?

Question

I'm using the package mapbox_maps_flutter 0.4.0. And I can't find a way to get the user's current location coordinates.

I can only update LocationComponentSettings that don't have coordinates. I'd like to have a method getUserLocation() or getLastKnownLocation().

Answer 1

I found a way:

Position? userLocation = await mapboxMap?.style.getPuckPosition();

if (userLocation != null) {
   print('Location: ${userLocation}');
}

extension PuckPosition on StyleManager {
  Future<Position> getPuckPosition() async {
    Layer? layer;
    if (Platform.isAndroid) {
      layer = await getLayer("mapbox-location-indicator-layer");
    } else {
      layer = await getLayer("puck");
    }
    final location = (layer as LocationIndicatorLayer).location;
    return Future.value(Position(location![1]!, location[0]!));
  }
}

Then userLocation has Position? type (see package turf). However, you must first enable location tracking:

mapboxMap?.location.updateSettings(LocationComponentSettings(enabled: true));