Getting User Location in Android App

<p>Learn how to implement location service into your android app using Kotlin and the Fused Location Provider API. This article will guide you through the process of retrieving the user’s current location and handling common errors that may occur. By the end of this article, you’ll have the necessary knowledge to create a location service into your android app.</p> <p> </p> <h1>Add dependencies</h1> <p>To implement location service in your Android app, you need to add these two dependencies to the <code>build.gradle</code> App file</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The first dependency provides the necessary APIs for retrieving the user’s current location.</li> <li>The second one allows you to retrieve the user’s location in a coroutine scope, which can help improve the performance of your app and prevent any blocking of the UI thread.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>Adding permissions to the manifest</strong></h1> <p>To retrieve the user’s location in your Android app, you’ll need to add the necessary location permissions to your app’s manifest file.<a href="https://medium.com/tag/jetpack-compose?source=post_page-----3c897ad56da1---------------jetpack_compose-----------------" rel="noopener follow">Jetpack</a></p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@cherfaoui_dev/getting-user-location-in-android-app-3c897ad56da1">Website</a></p>