GPS does not work on Android - only on iOS

@Asta_D did you manage to make gps coordinates change?i am in unity 5.3.5p6 having the same problem . @splitpete Should i update to 5.5.2 in order to fix this problem?

Hello,

My classmates and I ended up upgrading to Unity 5.6 and have seen the GPS work on the Android devices where it was previously not working. The GPS now updates, however when we switch screens it doesn't restart but that is a bug on my end. I can share my partially working code (since I don't remember if I changed it) and I'll probably be working on a fix later this week. I have the code hooked up to a text field on screen in order to see the printouts from the GPS every 5 seconds (it doesn't actually update every 5 seconds I believe; I don't think we get that control but I could be wrong).

Edit: Though I must also mention that I saw it begin to work when I changed my Google API code to UnityWebRequest. This is not related and should not have changed anything so I found that very confusing because that code is in a different script. Maybe it just works on 5.6 now.

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class UpdateGPSLocation : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public Text debugText;
     public Text distanceDebug;
 
     LocationInfo myGPSLocation;
     float fiveSecondCounter = 0.0f;
 
     float currentDistance;
 
     IEnumerator Start()
     {
         debugText.text += "Starting the GPS Script\n";
         EventManager.TriggerEvent (GameEvent.GPSInitialized);
 
         #if UNITY_ANROID
         Input.compass.enabled = true;
         #endif
 
         return InitializeGPSServices ();
     }
 
     IEnumerator InitializeGPSServices()
     {
         // First, check if user has location service enabled
         if (!Input.location.isEnabledByUser) {
             debugText.text += "GPS disabled by user\n";
             yield break;
         }
 
         // Start service before querying location
         Input.location.Start(0.1f, 0.1f);
 
         // Wait until service initializes
         int maxWait = 20;
         while (Input.location.status == LocationServiceStatus.Initializing && maxWait > 0)
         {
             yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
             maxWait--;
         }
 
         // Service didn't initialize in 20 seconds
         if (maxWait < 1)
         {
             debugText.text += "Timed out\n";
             yield break;
         }
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         fiveSecondCounter += Time.deltaTime;
         if (fiveSecondCounter > 5.0)
         {
             UpdateGPS ();
             fiveSecondCounter = 0.0f;
         }
     }
 
     void UpdateGPS()
     {
         // Connection has failed
         if (Input.location.status == LocationServiceStatus.Failed)
         {
             debugText.text += "Unable to determine device location\n";
             Input.location.Stop();
             Start ();
         }
         else
         {
             debugText.text += getUpdatedGPSstring();
         }
     }
 
     string getUpdatedGPSstring()
     {
         myGPSLocation = Input.location.lastData;
         return "Location: " + myGPSLocation.latitude + " " + myGPSLocation.longitude + " " + myGPSLocation.altitude + " " + myGPSLocation.horizontalAccuracy + " " + myGPSLocation.timestamp + "\n"; 
     }
 
     public Vector2 GetCoordinate()
     {
         return new Vector2 (myGPSLocation.latitude, myGPSLocation.longitude);
     }
 
     // For the IShowHideListener from the HomeUIObject
     public void OnShow()
     {
         InitializeGPSServices ();
     }
 
     public void OnHide()
     {
         // Stop service if there is no need to query location updates continuously
         Input.location.Stop ();
         debugText.text = "";
 
         // Make sure it immediately updates when the screen shows again
         fiveSecondCounter = 5.1f;
     }
 }
 

Hi!

I think your sintax is wrong. Line 21 should be:

 yield return InitializeGPSServices ();