GPS

Xamarin Essentials is great, but Shiny makes realtime background location updates a thing on Xamarin platforms.

Warning

Android uses a foreground service! You must have an application icon set or a drawable resource called notification in order for background GPS to work

Area Value
NuGet Shiny.Locations
Delegate Shiny.Locations.IGpsDelegate

Startup File

using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Shiny;

namespace YourNamespace
{
    public class YourShinyStartup : ShinyStartup
    {
        public override void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services, IPlatform platform)
        {
            services.UseGps();\n //OR\nservices.UseGps<YourGpsDelegate>();
        }
    }
}

Platform Setup

Minimum Version: 12

Info.plist

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC " -//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version=\"1.0\">
    <dict>
        <key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
        <string>Say something useful here that your users will understand</string>
        <key>NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
        <string>Say something useful here that your users will understand</string>
        <key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
        <string>Say something useful here that your users will understand</string>
        <key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
        <array>
            <string>location</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</plist>

Samples