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Support background location

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

Currently the Location.watchPositionAsync is not triggered when the app is closed (at least it’s not specified in the doc)

It could be nice to support background location. Not anything fancy but at least the ability to run a callback that sends that location to a backend server while the app is in background.

There are some RN and Cordova plugins providing this feature where some inspiration can be taken from:

https://github.com/mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation https://github.com/pmwisdom/cordova-background-geolocation-services https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:18 (11 by maintainers)

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brentvatnecommented, Jul 5, 2017

Canny again is a good fit for this. This is something we are working on but we need to build some general infrastructure for background code execution first – we are working on that part now.

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timhuffcommented, Apr 3, 2018

I gotcha. I guess my question is: is this something you feel a newcomer could tackle? I know the Objective-C/Java side of this. I would think the only thing I would need to learn is how to create the expo API. It’s not something I’d be tackling for another month or two but I have an app that does background tracking (amongst other things) and I’d like to migrate it to expo. Seems if I move the tracking piece into expo, I’d just have to set up an API and then we’d be all set to use expo for the rest.

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