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Xamarin Reactive Location - ALPHA

Motivation

Location on each Xamarin platform is already event/push driven which is where Reactive models do great. This creates a useful wrapper around the iOS/Android location APIs.

Cross Platform-ish

• Location features/permissions change (see iOS 11 permission changes).
• Location features get fairly nuanced between platforms. This library will have a default setup that "works" but it has platform specific extensibility points for permissions, the location objects, and setting up start parameters. Not having these things hidden gives you full control

Still thinking about and working on

• Is location service useful? Should everything just be condensed into the Listeners?
• Is a default implementaiton useful? Or should user just be forced to implement an abstract listener on each platform?
• What level of default implementation should be provided for checking permissions?
• What type of cross platform "settings" should be allowed? or just tell user to implement the listeners
• UWP I have some older code I need to port into this model to make it work for UWP
• There's some duplicate logic between listeners (checking permission). Look at centralizing this
• Need to surface different states. IsAuthorizedObs, Service Disconnected, Reason No Longer Listening, Also different reasons location checking is failing. Disabled on device etc...
• Error handler might be a weird design and need to just percolate exceptions through stream instead

Thanks To

• https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/GeolocatorPlugin for getting me started with location and inspiring parts of this library