How to get Location user with CLLocationManager in swift?

Question

I have this code on my view controller but this not working:

  import UIKit
  import CoreLocation

  class ViewController: UIViewController, CLLocationManag         


        

Answer 1

This is the same code as above but cleaned up to work with Swift as of the date of this posting. This worked for me.

Kudos to the original poster.

(note, stick this into whatever class you will use to handle your location stuff.)

var lastLocation = CLLocation()
var locationAuthorizationStatus:CLAuthorizationStatus!
var window: UIWindow?
var locationManager: CLLocationManager!
var seenError : Bool = false
var locationFixAchieved : Bool = false
var locationStatus : NSString = "Not Started"

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    
    
    self.initLocationManager()
    
}
    // Location Manager helper stuff
    func initLocationManager() {
        seenError = false
        locationFixAchieved = false
        locationManager = CLLocationManager()
        locationManager.delegate = self
        locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest
        
        locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
    }
    
    // Location Manager Delegate stuff
    
    func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager!, didFailWithError error: NSError!) {
        locationManager.stopUpdatingLocation()
        if ((error) != nil) {
            if (seenError == false) {
                seenError = true
                print(error)
            }
        }
    }
    
    func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager!, didUpdateLocations locations: [AnyObject]!) {
        if (locationFixAchieved == false) {
            locationFixAchieved = true
            var locationArray = locations as NSArray
            var locationObj = locationArray.lastObject as CLLocation
            var coord = locationObj.coordinate
            
            println(coord.latitude)
            println(coord.longitude)
        }
    }
    
    func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager!,  didChangeAuthorizationStatus status: CLAuthorizationStatus) {
            var shouldIAllow = false
            
            switch status {
            case CLAuthorizationStatus.Restricted:
                locationStatus = "Restricted Access to location"
            case CLAuthorizationStatus.Denied:
                locationStatus = "User denied access to location"
            case CLAuthorizationStatus.NotDetermined:
                locationStatus = "Status not determined"
            default:
                locationStatus = "Allowed to location Access"
                shouldIAllow = true
            }
            NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("LabelHasbeenUpdated", object: nil)
            if (shouldIAllow == true) {
                NSLog("Location to Allowed")
                // Start location services
                locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
            } else {
                NSLog("Denied access: \(locationStatus)")
            }
    }