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Foreground service doesn't work in Android 10

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

In Android 10 the service definition in the manifest file must have: android:foregroundServiceType="location" in order for the foreground service to work properly (ie. when user select “only while using app” as location permission.

<service android:enabled="true" android:exported="false" android:foregroundServiceType="location" android:name="com.marianhello.bgloc.service.LocationServiceImpl" />

I hope it is possible to add this in the next version.

Does anyone have a quick fix for this? My current solution is to add the line manually to the manifest file after each “cordova prepare”. It is just a matter of time before I forget it before releasing.

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Created 3 years ago
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mobilemarinescommented, Feb 8, 2021

To be honest, this (discontinued) plugin and all (I guess - don’t know all) forks are dying due to the lack of adjustments to the latest SDKs and other evolution. There have been a lot of changes in Android 10 + 11 regarding the background (always) permission and capability of sending position updates in the background. Also iOS 14 introduced the approximate location. Additionally many major vendors kill apps in the background, see https://dontkillmyapp.com/ So this plugin should actually be renamed to cordova-plugin-foreground-geolocation. 😉 Only the original (paid) plugin seems to keep track of the plugin to work in the background/minimized: https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-background-geolocation-lt

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isinocasiocommented, Feb 8, 2021

To be honest, this (discontinued) plugin and all (I guess - don’t know all) forks are dying due to the lack of adjustments to the latest SDKs and other evolution. There have been a lot of changes in Android 10 + 11 regarding the background (always) permission and capability of sending position updates in the background. Also iOS 14 introduced the approximate location. Additionally many major vendors kill apps in the background, see https://dontkillmyapp.com/ So this plugin should actually be renamed to cordova-plugin-foreground-geolocation. 😉 Only the original (paid) plugin seems to keep track of the plugin to work in the background/minimized: https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-background-geolocation-lt

That is true, actually Im starting to train myself in Flutter because all of this issues with cordova.

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