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BackgroundTimer.runBackgroundTimer() does not run in background

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On Android, BackgroundTimer.runBackgroundTimer() pauses the task when the Activity is moved to background. This doesn’t seem intuitive given that it’s meant to be a background timer.

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

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ocetnikcommented, Aug 22, 2018

@mun3 @roysG @nervouscat @johntitus you can try yarn upgrade react-native-background-timer@2.1.0-alpha.5

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johntituscommented, Aug 22, 2018

If you install from github instead of NPM, so you get the latest codebase with @hawkup’s commit, it fixes the issue.

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