CLLocation Manager in Swift to get Location of User

Question

I am trying to convert an old app in ObjC to Swift as a practice exercise and have ran in to some issues. The way I had it in the old app, it was establishing the CLLocatio

Answer 1

You are missing two things. First, you have to ask for permission using requestAlwaysAuthorization or requestWhenInUseAuthorization(). So your viewDidLoad() should be like this:

var locationManager = CLLocationManager()

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

    locationManager.delegate = self
    locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest
    locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
    locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
}

Second, edit your Info.plist as indicated here.