A Quick Guide to Using Geolocation in Your Mobile App

Posted: December 13th, 2016 Author: Filed under: AngularJS, API, App Builder, Ionic, jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, Tutorials, Video

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Geolocation is one of the most widely used APIs in mobile apps today. From weather to Uber and Lyft, the device location is crucial information and many APIs use it to determine what services and products are available in a given location. When building a mobile app in Appery.io, using the Geolocation API is simple. Apache Cordova library is built-in in every new Appery.io app. Invoking Geolocation will return the latitude, longitude (and other) information which can then be passed to any REST API. The following two short videos show how to use and invoke Geolocation in an Ionic and jQuery Mobile apps:

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