Android : Geolocation within WebView remains always active, how to disable it?

on Thursday, April 2, 2015


I own a cordova app running on an Android device.


In the configuration, I had set those values:



<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />


I'm using the classic HTML5 geolocation code: navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition


It works.


Now, on the device, I want to turn off geolocation services so that the process of getting current position is bypassed.

So, I turned off the "Position" icon, but it keeps searching for position, resulting in a Timeout expired.

I don't want this delay.


How to completely disable geolocation while using an hybrid application?


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