No tracking when in background

[remoteportal]

I see that if the example app is not in the foreground (the background), I continue to get notifications.

But as I close the app the notifications stop.

[ikbendewilliam]

You need to set the location permission to "always allow". This is not something an app can request and in a production app you should show a dialog to the user and open settings for them.

[zwells]

After setting "always allow", does this plugin work on iOS when the app is terminated? i.e. when the 500 meter threshold is passed, does it wake up the app with our callback?

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/cllocationmanager/1423531-startmonitoringsignificantlocati

[12people]

@ikbendewilliam Even with that setting enabled, it doesn't work for me.

To reproduce:

1. Install the example app on an iOS emulator (I use iOS 17.4 on iPhone SE 3rd gen, but I assume any modern emulator will do)
2. In the emulator's Features > Location menu, choose Freeway Ride
3. Enable the "always" location setting in iOS Settings
4. Open the example app
5. Start tracking location
6. Open the iOS app overview
7. Swipe the example app away

Expected result:

• Location notifications will continue showing up indefinitely, location will continue to be tracked
• The location indicator will continue to appear in the system tray

Actual result:

• Only around 5 notifications appear after the app's closing (likely leftovers from before the app was closed)
• The location indicator disappears from the system tray as soon as the app is closed

[zwells]

I made a pull request on a different repo that achieves this: https://github.com/Almoullim/background_location/pull/207

[12people]

There's also flutter_location_wakeup that seems to do this.

Would be good to have it in one add-on, though. And perhaps there's even a better way to achieve this in general?

The perfect solution for my use case would be a native geofencing plug-in that works reliably in the background.