@capgo/capacitor-nativegeocoder

Turn coordinates into addresses and addresses into coordinates from your Capacitor app with the native geocoders on iOS and Android.

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Key features

• Reverse geocoding: reverseGeocode() converts latitude and longitude to street, city, postal code and country.
• Forward geocoding: forwardGeocode() converts an address to coordinates.
• Localized results: useLocale and defaultLocale on iOS and Android. Web uses defaultLocale for the request language.
• Result limit: maxResults caps the number of matches.
• Platforms: iOS, Android and Web. iOS uses Core Location, Android uses Geocoder. Web calls the Google Geocoding API with your apiKey.

Documentation

The most complete doc is available here: https://capgo.app/docs/plugins/nativegeocoder/

Compatibility

Note: The major version of this plugin follows the major version of Capacitor. Use the version that matches your Capacitor installation (e.g., plugin v8 for Capacitor 8). Only the latest major version is actively maintained.

Install

You can use our AI-Assisted Setup to install the plugin. Add the Capgo skills to your AI tool using the following command:

npx skills add https://github.com/cap-go/capacitor-skills --skill capacitor-plugins

Then use the following prompt:

Use the `capacitor-plugins` skill from `cap-go/capacitor-skills` to install the `@capgo/capacitor-nativegeocoder` plugin in my project.

If you prefer Manual Setup, install the plugin by running the following commands and follow the platform-specific instructions below:

npm install @capgo/capacitor-nativegeocoder
npx cap sync

then import this into your code:

import { NativeGeocoder } from '@capgo/capacitor-nativegeocoder';

iOS

Apple requires privacy descriptions to be specified in Info.plist for location information:

• NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription (Privacy - Location Always Usage Description)
• NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription (Privacy - Location When In Use Usage Description)

Read about Configuring Info.plist in the iOS Guide for more information on setting iOS permissions in Xcode The IOS implementation require internet

Android

This API requires the following permissions be added to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<!-- Geolocation API -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.location.gps" />

Web

This API requires a Google API key to be set in the apiKey field of the ForwardOptions or ReverseOptions interfaces.

There is no way to use this plugin on the web without a Google API key.

The return data is limited to the data available from the native API on the device, as example formatted_address is not available in web implementation, as it's not available in the native API.

API

• reverseGeocode(...)
• forwardGeocode(...)
• getPluginVersion()
• Interfaces

reverseGeocode(...)

reverseGeocode(options: ReverseOptions) => Promise<{ addresses: Address[]; }>

Convert latitude and longitude to an address

Returns: Promise<{ addresses: Address[]; }>

Since: 0.0.1

forwardGeocode(...)

forwardGeocode(options: ForwardOptions) => Promise<{ addresses: Address[]; }>

Convert an address to latitude and longitude

Returns: Promise<{ addresses: Address[]; }>

Since: 0.0.1

getPluginVersion()

getPluginVersion() => Promise<{ version: string; }>

Get the native Capacitor plugin version

Returns: Promise<{ version: string; }>

Interfaces

Address

ReverseOptions

ForwardOptions

Thanks

To @sebastianbaar and his work on cordova-plugin-nativegeocoder what he made was very inspiring