NMEA Updates

[Wackymax]

This update includes the following changes:

1. Android 34 now includes properties for MSL altitude so we can use that instead of the MSL from NMEA messages when available.
2. We now support reading MSL NMEA messages from other constellations.
3. Always start the NMEA listener so we can include GPS fix data.
4. Upgraded Android packages to the latest versions.

Fixes: #1473
Fixes: #1479

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[mvanbeusekom]

Hi @Wackymax,

Thanks for yet another great PR, I like the update however I have one concern about the update of the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location and androidx.core:core dependencies.

It would be great to hear your thoughts about it.

[mvanbeusekom]

I am a bit afraid updating these dependencies introduce a breaking change. I have done an upgrade to version 21.1.0 of the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location which forced users to update AGP to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to 1.9.0.

I have reverted the change as we didn't need any of the new functionality, if we do need it to support the MSL altitude we should probably update the version number to 5.0.0 and clearly mention in the CHANGELOG that users should update their Android Gradle Plugin to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to version 1.9.0.

[Wackymax]

I believe we do need it to support the new MSL functionality. I also don't like to let versions fall behind to much for security concerns etc. Id rather update to a new major version then?On 16 May 2024, at 09:32, Maurits van Beusekom ***@***.***> wrote: @mvanbeusekom commented on this pull request. Hi @Wackymax, Thanks again for this PR, I like the update however I have one concern about the update of the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location and androidx.core:core dependencies. It would be great to hear your thoughts about it. In geolocator_android/android/build.gradle:

+ implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.2.0'

+ implementation 'androidx.core:core:1.13.0' I am a bit afraid updating these dependencies introduce a breaking change. I have done an upgrade to version 21.1.0 of the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location which forced users to update AGP to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to 1.9.0. I have reverted the change as we didn't need any of the new functionality, if we do need it to support the MSL altitude we should probably update the version number to 5.0.0 and clearly mention in the CHANGELOG that users should update their Android Gradle Plugin to version 8.0.0 and Kotlin to version 1.9.0. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mvanbeusekom]

I believe we do need it to support the new MSL functionality. I also don't like to let versions fall behind to much for security concerns etc. Id rather update to a new major version then?

That sounds great to me. Personally I also don't like to fall behind, so if you can update to a new major release and clearly mention that users need to update to AGP version 8.0.0 or higher in the CHANGELOG that would be great.

One interesting thing I noticed, the example application is still using version 7.6.1 of Gradle (see gradle-wrapper.properties) and version 7.4.2 of the Android Gradle Plugin (see settings.gradle). So maybe Google fixed something between version 21.1.0 and 21.2.0 not forcing users to upgrade anymore.

Here is the original issues people submitted when I did the update: #1441 and #1442

[Wackymax]

Yeah I also haven't updated in my personal app and haven't run into any problems running on this commit. Should I still update to a newer version in this case?On 16 May 2024, at 10:03, Maurits van Beusekom ***@***.***> wrote: I believe we do need it to support the new MSL functionality. I also don't like to let versions fall behind to much for security concerns etc. Id rather update to a new major version then? That sounds great to me. Personally I also don't like to fall behind, so if you can update to a new major release and clearly mention that users need to update to AGP version 8.0.0 or higher in the CHANGELOG that would be great. One interesting thing I noticed, the example application is still using version 7.6.1 of Gradle (see gradle-wrapper.properties) and version 7.4.2 of the Android Gradle Plugin (see settings.gradle). So maybe Google fixed something between version 21.1.0 and 21.2.0 not forcing users to upgrade anymore. Here is the original issue people submitted when I did the update: #1442 —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mvanbeusekom]

Yeah I also haven't updated in my personal app and haven't run into any problems running on this commit. Should I still update to a newer version in this case?

Let me do a few tests, see if I can reproduce the original error with version 21.1.0 and if it still occurs when I update to 21.2.0. I will get back to you soon ;). Thanks for your patience.

[mvanbeusekom]

TL;DR: Updating to version 21.2.0 is safe. No need to do a major version update.

Long(er) version:

To ensure the update of the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location dependency doesn't result in any breaking changes I created a fresh Flutter project and added a dependency to the geolocator_android package bases on a path reference:

1. Create new Flutter project: flutter create -a java --platforms android gradle_test
2. Add dependency on geolocator_android package:

dependencies:
  geolocator_android:
    path: /Users/maurits/sources/Baseflow/Internal/Flutter/geolocator/geolocator_android

The geolocator_android package at the moment is the version on the main branch and the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location version is set to 21.0.1, so we have a baseline. Running flutter build apk works without any problems.

Next I updated the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location version to 21.1.0 and again run the flutter build apk command. This now results in the following error (as described in issue #1441):

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkReleaseDuplicateClasses'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckDuplicatesRunnable
   > Duplicate class kotlin.collections.jdk8.CollectionsJDK8Kt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk7.JDK7PlatformImplementations found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk7.JDK7PlatformImplementations$ReflectSdkVersion found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk8.JDK8PlatformImplementations found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk8.JDK8PlatformImplementations$ReflectSdkVersion found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.ExperimentalPathApi found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathRelativizer found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt__PathReadWriteKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt__PathUtilsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.jdk7.AutoCloseableKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.jvm.jdk8.JvmRepeatableKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.jvm.optionals.OptionalsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.random.jdk8.PlatformThreadLocalRandom found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
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     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$2 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$3 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$4 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.text.jdk8.RegexExtensionsJDK8Kt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.9.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.9.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.7.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.7.10)
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BUILD FAILED in 13s
Running Gradle task 'bundleRelease'...                             13.8s
Gradle task bundleRelease failed with exit code 1

Next I updated the com.google.android.gms:play-services-location to version 21.2.0 and again ran the flutter build apk command. This time however the build worked out without any problem.

[mvanbeusekom]

LGTM, thanks @Wackymax for another great contribution.

[vincent-hoodoo]

@mvanbeusekom Could this change be responsible for #1517 ?