Add update rate to getPositionStream() about flutter-geolocator

[mvanbeusekom]

😁👍We will probably release this tomorrow to pub (I will also fix #71 tomorrow and include it in the release).

[mvanbeusekom]

@escamoteur to my knowledge this is not supported on iOS. To keep a consistent (or as much as possible) interface we haven't included this into the API.

If I am wrong please let me know and we will reconsider this.

[escamoteur]

IMHO it would be more important to offer it because on Android there is a sophisticated update system available and it saves a lot of energy. So why not offer it with the remark that it has no effect on ios?

[mvanbeusekom]

@escamoteur I think we can do that indeed.

Just note that setting a time interval on Android has no effect when you also set a displacement value. In other words the setSmallestDisplacement(int) takes precedence over the setInterval(long) and setFastestInterval(long) options on the fused location provider (the same goes for the time and distance parameters of the requestLocationUpdates method of the LocationManager).

What I am trying to say is you can already control power consumption using by tuning the distance and this will work on both platforms.

[escamoteur]

How can setting the distance save battery? it will have to update position to check the distance or not?

[escamoteur]

Awesome 👍👍👍