Geolocation plugin for Xamarin and Windows
Here is a quick guide to questions asked.
This is completely possible if the device doesn’t return the location in the specified time. It is good to check the cached location first before polling. If you are on an emulator it is very common to get this. You must bring up the emulators settings and push a location to a device. The same can be true for the iOS Simulator.
Yes, according to the documentation If your app is running in the background, the location system service computes a new location for your app only a few times each hour. This is the case even when your app is requesting more frequent location updates.
This is the current expected behavior, it is the only way to actually query the providers for gps. I recommend that the app developer checks the permissions first using the Permissions Plugin.
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