With the new post about Flutter Apps on the Librem 5 (thank you!), I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for a Flutter app that has gps location tracking for turn-by-turn navigation.
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I feel like you meant me. 
Youâre welcome! Couldnât find any ready to go solution so far. Maybe you, I or someone else has time to test wether aquiring a GPS fix itself is possible with Flutter on Librem 5 right now?
It should be a matter of 1) following my tutorial for the virtual build machine and 2) build the flutter-geolocator linux example app and test that on the Librem 5 the same way as mentioned in the former tutorial.
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Great. Thank you! I think this might be a bit beyond my skill level, but I may give it a try. If I do, I will report back.
If you want to try that and have questions, feel free to ask!
Maybe Iâll also have time to try that in the meantimeâŚ
Speaking of location, I tried the maps icon on my L5 and tried to get directions for somewhere.
But then it wants you to sign up for âgrasshopperâ which means a name, a passphrase, and a country location.
I thought one of the purposes of apps on the L5 were not to ask these things?
Bit offtopic, isnât it
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Back at the top of this post, the post talks about GPS navigation and turn by turn navigation.
What did I miss besides flutter?
OP is specifically asking for a Flutter app recommendation Iâd insist on. There are many other topics for turn-by-turn navigation itself. And the maps icon on your Librem 5 does get you to GNOME Maps which does not even do turn-by-turn
Sorry for offending the topic cops then.
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That offense is right under incorrect pronoun use, youâre lucky⌠this time.
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Hey @flanders51
I tried compiling the flutter-geolocator example app for the Librem 5!
SSH to build machine
flutter upgrade # Get newest Flutter version
cd ~/development
git clone https://github.com/Baseflow/flutter-geolocator.git
cd flutter-geolocator/geolocator_linux/example
nano pubspec.yaml # Observed upstream issue
Compiling failed due to some upstream issue I observed. Change:
assets:
- res/images/baseflow_logo_def_light-02.png
- res/images/poweredByBaseflowLogoLight@3x.png
- packages/baseflow_plugin_template/logo.png
- packages/baseflow_plugin_template/poweredByBaseflow.png
to:
assets:
- res/images/baseflow_logo_def_light-02.png
- res/images/poweredByBaseflowLogoLight@3x.png
- packages/baseflow_plugin_template/assets/logo.png
- packages/baseflow_plugin_template/assets/poweredByBaseflow.png
Build:
flutter build linux --release
Another error: ERROR: Compilation to SkSL failed.. Seems to be a Flutter upstream error for the current version: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/116703 on ARM64.
So I downgraded Flutter again:
cd ~/development/flutter
git checkout 3.3.10
flutter doctor
cd ~/development/flutter-geolocator/geolocator_linux/example
flutter build linux --release
SUCCESS!
Copy the files to local machine: scp -P 2222 -r <USERNAME>@localhost:~/development/flutter-geolocator/geolocator_linux/example/build/linux/arm64/release/bundle/ ./flutter-geolocator/
Copied the build files to the Librem 5, make it executable via chmod +x example, start with ./example et voila:
Was about 5 km away from my real location. So it seems it uses Geoclue correctly. The exact position is depending on a correct GPS fix. 
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This is really cool. Can you make us all an app now?
You mean publishing the build here so that otherâs can test? 
I did not see a map there. I thought maybe it was only a test to determine if GPS worked.
Yes, it is! Just a test app wether GPS could generally work with Flutter apps on Librem 5. And it seems to work but I havenât been under clear sky with it.
Donât know wether there exist some turn-by-turn navigation Flutter apps so farâŚ
Understood. Still very cool.
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