Start in foreground and finish in background if app closed?

I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but is it possible with this library to start a task in the foreground and finish it despite the app going to the background?

To give a more concrete example: I press ‘Send’ on an email—a process which in total takes a few seconds—but leave the app before it’s finished. I would like this process to continue and finish in the background after I have left the app.

There is a beginBackgroundTask which seems to be used for this exact scenario. However, as this is not implemented, I guess this is not within the scope of this plugin?

Thanks in advance, and thanks a lot for the work on this plugin!

[alexandersandberg]

@jehartzog My issue is not the time limit, but rather the use case I explained in my first post.

I press ‘Send’ on an email—a process which in total takes a few seconds—but leave the app before it’s finished. I would like this process to continue and finish in the background after I have left the app.

I need the process to continue when the app goes to the background, not run periodic background fetches when the app is already in the background.

I managed to implement this with beginBackgroundTask by creating my own plugin and wrapping tasks that need to continue if the app is closed with beginBackgroundTask. Without this, the process (e.g. sending an email) is immediately canceled when the app goes to the background, and the email is not sent.

So the question is: is it possible to do this using react-native-background-fetch as well?

[jehartzog]

@alexandersandberg Looks like you still may only get 30 seconds when using that call: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/85066 .