Xamarin form Geolocation task cancelled exception

Question

I am working on Xamarin form app with andorid, UWP and Windows 8 project. I am using Geolocation plugin created by Jamesmontemagno to get the current device location. It is

Answer 1

For anyone else who gets a timeout even with the await, only on Android, and even though the device's Google Maps app works fine, you are probably running into this bug which only happens on certain Android devices, but quite a few of them at that.

The issue is an old one that Google has never fixed. The solution, and one possible reason the Google Maps app works fine, is to use Google Play Services' fused location provider.

Currently the Geolocator Plugin just uses the regular Android Location Provider, but James has mentioned that he would like to use the Fused provider at some point. I have yet to try the fused provider myself though.