Place Picker takes 11 seconds to load on IOS

[amirhabibz]

Describe the bug
When I use the Place Picker on an IOS 8 device it takes 11 seconds to load google maps. When I do this on the Android simulator it takes a few seconds for it to load.

To Reproduce
Loads the feature on an IOS device.

Expected behavior
I expected it to behave similar to the Android simulator

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[fysoul17]

Hi,
It is duplicated to #26 , but there weren't any further updates regarding it.

Can you share the code of PlacePicker widget settings?
Also, would you mind testing on another device or iPhone simulator as it did not happen on my side, and so I am unsure what is causing to your case.

[amirhabibz]

void showPlacePicker() async {
       Navigator.push(
        context,
        MaterialPageRoute(
          builder: (context) => PlacePicker(
            apiKey: "************",
            useCurrentLocation: true,
            usePlaceDetailSearch: true,
            onPlacePicked: (result) {
              setState(() {
                selectedPlace = result;
                locationController.text = result.name != null ? result.name : result.formattedAddress;
                print(result.name);
                var encoded = Geohash.encode(result.geometry.location.lat,result.geometry.location.lng);
                print(encoded);
              });
              Navigator.of(context).pop();
              setState(() {});
            },
          ),
        ),
      );
    }

I'll try testing on another device as well.

This is what I see on my xcode logs if it helps:
locationManager:didUpdateLocations:
[CurrentLocationTask dealloc]
[LocationTask dealloc] - This take 11 sec to showup

[amirhabibz]

I just noticed that when i move the cursor to select a place and then want to go back to my current location, I have to wait 10-11 second before the current location button functions.

[amirhabibz]

On the IOS simulator it doesn't go past the loading screen, I wasn't able to test on a different IOS phone. This is the best place picker library at the moment but the delay makes this unusable for me. I'm going to have to use another library for the time being.

[geekhenno]

this delay because the default of desired accuracy is high, other libraries we can change it from high to medium, but here we can not.

[fysoul17]

Hi, @hennonoman
Good to hear what was causing the issue.

Fortunately, we have a parameter called [desiredLocationAccuracy] which you can set the desired accuracy.

@amirhabibz, could you try changing the accuracy setting and check if it works?

[amirhabibz]

@hennonoman @fysoul17 Thanks guys! This worked. I'm glad I can use this Library again.

Cheers!

[fysoul17]

Closing as the issue has been solved.

[SmarterVision]

Hello @fysoul17 @amirhabibz, I still have the problem of 10 seconds to load the current location on IOS
can please let me know what you change to fix it

[martin-braun]

@SmarterVision For now, check my fork, this might work out with you. Things will probably take a while until they are fixed here. No offensive towards the author though, he is just too busy right now.

[gsoykan]

Hi all, I've been facing with the same issue for long time. But in the end I was able to find out the primary reason why this takes long for me and finally found a solution for that.
The first thing I realized that was the map was loading slowly only when I enabled "useCurrentLocation".
Then I did little bit of research and realized that currentLocation actually comes from "geolocator" package which also suffers from the same slowness issue when getting the current location until a very recent version 8.2.0.
However, place picker as it is depends on geolocators 7th version in comparison to @martin-braun 's package which depends on ^8.0.0.
So solution: Change to @martin-braun 's fork and add geolocator: ^8.2.0 to your pubspec.yaml.

[martin-braun]

@gsoykan Thank you. My new version 2.0.0-mb.14 is up. It should be fixed without the need of a more recent geolocator package in your pubspec.yaml.