I'm using Flutter SDK 3.19.1 and geolocator: ^9.0.2 to get the current position. It actually works, but the method is slow, it takes about 4 seconds.

await Geolocator.getCurrentPosition();

How can I avoid that time?

I tried to constantly get the current position, this reduces the time to 1 sec, but this way trades a faster execution time with higher battery consumption.

My goal is to get the current position only once in the fastest execution time.

I'm using Flutter SDK 3.19.1 and geolocator: ^9.0.2 to get the current position. It actually works, but the method is slow, it takes about 4 seconds.

await Geolocator.getCurrentPosition();

How can I avoid that time?

I tried to constantly get the current position, this reduces the time to 1 sec, but this way trades a faster execution time with higher battery consumption.

My goal is to get the current position only once in the fastest execution time.

• flutter
• geolocation

1 Answer 1

Determining the user's current position takes time and uses power. Nothing you can do in your code can change anything about that, so you will have to deal with both.

A suggested approach here is to first use getLastKnownPosition to get an initial estimated location quickly and then update with getCurrentPosition when that returns a value.

The last known position may be wildly off from the current position, but at least you'll have a starting point. And many users are familiar with this behavior where the maps app at first shows the location where they last used it.