Friday Funday: Live Location Tracking in Tulip with a Custom Widget

One of the things I’ve been excited to play with is location tracking from a Tulip app. Let’s get to it!

Let keep it KISS, just display the GPS location on screen. First things first, need to enable the

And enable geolocation

Make a bit of HTML and Javascript https://github.com/mellerbeck/simple_tulip_gps/tree/main

Ok, cool. We have lift off!

Let’s put this in an app, and test it on the road!

So, it looks like if I run it in the safari browser (\player) version. It works! (It asks for permission to use the GPS)

I haven’t been able to get it to work in the tulip player yet though! I suspect the app might needs some modifications to pass the enablement of location sharing.

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