Show my location

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This example shows how to represent the user's location as a blue dot, and display the My Location button in the bottom right corner of the map. When the user taps the button, the map pans to the user's current location.

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import 'dart:async';

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:google_maps_flutter/google_maps_flutter.dart';

/// User's location is shown as a blue dot and the My Location button
/// is displayed in the bottom right corner of the map. When the user taps
/// the button, the map pans to the user's current location.
class MyLocationSample extends StatefulWidget {
  const MyLocationSample({super.key});

  @override
  State<MyLocationSample> createState() => _MyLocationSampleState();
}

class _MyLocationSampleState extends State<MyLocationSample> {
  /// To use My Location on some platforms (such as Android),
  /// you need to ask the user for permission at runtime. See below.
  bool? _permissionGranted;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return GoogleMap(
      initialCameraPosition: CameraPosition(target: LatLng(37.78, -122.42)),

      // Enables the My Location layer.
      //
      // This feature is not available on all platforms and you MUST have
      // the appropriate location permission enabled in order for this to work.
      // See documentation of [GoogleMap.myLocationEnabled] for details.
      myLocationEnabled: _permissionGranted ?? false,

      // You can choose whether to show the button that lets the user
      // transport the camera to their current location.
      // This has no effect when `myLocationEnabled` is false.
      myLocationButtonEnabled: true,
    );
  }

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _requestPermission();
  }

  /// A *fake* implementation of requesting the permission.
  ///
  /// Real apps will use 3rd party packages such as `package:permission_handler`
  /// or build their own bespoke solution.
  Future<void> _requestPermission() async {
    // Wait a bit before continuing. This is required here because we call this
    // function from initState(), and that's too soon to be showing dialogues.
    await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 1));
    if (!mounted) return;

    var result = await showDialog<bool>(
      context: context,
      builder: (context) => SimpleDialog(
        title: Text('Requesting permission'),
        children: [
          SimpleDialogOption(
              onPressed: () => Navigator.pop(context, true),
              child: Text('Grant')),
          SimpleDialogOption(
              onPressed: () => Navigator.pop(context, false),
              child: Text('Deny')),
        ],
      ),
    );

    if (!mounted) return;
    ScaffoldMessenger.of(context).showSnackBar(SnackBar(
      content: Text('Fake permission granted: $result. '
          'Remember that for My Location to actually work, '
          'you need an actual runtime permission on some platforms. '
          'See the code of this sample for more info.'),
      duration: const Duration(seconds: 10),
      showCloseIcon: true,
    ));

    setState(() {
      _permissionGranted = result;
    });
  }
}

    

Next steps

View the complete set of samples on GitHub:

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Alternatively, clone the full set of samples to run them locally by executing the following commands:

  git clone -b flutter_samples https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/flutter-maps-samples.git
  cd flutter-samples
  flutter pub get