IBM MobileFirst -- get location - ibm-mobilefirst

Question

I have MobileFirst (V7.O) app . How do I get the current latitude/Longitude for the device. Basically, I am recording some information at various point in my app and user can be moving.. So, at various instance, I would like to get the current lat/log..
Can you please provide some hints and how to get this information
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Cordova is bundled in your MobileFirst project. As such you can take use of Cordova APIs to achieve this.
See the following (scroll down to the API usage): https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-geolocation
// onSuccess Callback
// This method accepts a Position object, which contains the
// current GPS coordinates
//
var onSuccess = function(position) {
alert('Latitude: ' + position.coords.latitude + '\n' +
'Longitude: ' + position.coords.longitude + '\n' +
'Altitude: ' + position.coords.altitude + '\n' +
'Accuracy: ' + position.coords.accuracy + '\n' +
'Altitude Accuracy: ' + position.coords.altitudeAccuracy + '\n' +
'Heading: ' + position.coords.heading + '\n' +
'Speed: ' + position.coords.speed + '\n' +
'Timestamp: ' + position.timestamp + '\n');
};
// onError Callback receives a PositionError object
//
function onError(error) {
alert('code: ' + error.code + '\n' +
'message: ' + error.message + '\n');
}
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError);