The service notification disappears after some times

[AlenToma]

Hi, as the title says, the notification disappears after sometime but the BackgroundService.isRunning is still running.

Is that okey ? or is it a problem.

as I know when the notification disappears it should indicate that the service is down right?

[Rapsssito]

@AlenToma, the background handling implementation heavily depends on the OS flavor you are running. Normally, if when the notification disappears, it means the service is no longer running, but it may not be the case. The only way of knowing is checking the process itself.

[AlenToma]

The process is while loop that always running, so if there were an error on the android part. then you could not have seen it.
Now I have downgraded to 2.6.2 and everything works as it should be.

The notification is always up as long as my app is open.

I am using this in Samsung s10 lite with android version 11

[JariPulkkinen]

I also noticed that the service got stopped when I closed the application. May be related. Call to stopForeground() here might be the reason:

react-native-background-actions/android/src/main/java/com/asterinet/react/bgactions/RNBackgroundActionsTask.java

Line 92 in 318375c

this.stopForeground(false);

[AlenToma]

Obs I forgot to say that the notification disappear only when the app have gone on foreground for 6 to 10 mins

[Rapsssito]

I also noticed that the service got stopped when I closed the application. May be related. Call to stopForeground() here might be the reason:

react-native-background-actions/android/src/main/java/com/asterinet/react/bgactions/RNBackgroundActionsTask.java

Line 92 in 318375c

this.stopForeground(false);

@JariPulkkinen that this.stopForeground(false); is only called when there was already a running background task and you started a new one. It should not interfere.

[Rapsssito]

@AlenToma, does it happen in version 2.6.4?

[AlenToma]

Hmm was 2.6.4 the latest version? if it was then yes.

[Rapsssito]

@AlenToma, the latest version is 2.6.6. Could you check if 2.6.4 works for you?

[Mhp23]

@Rapsssito in the latest version (2.6.6) background services will be stop and notification bar will gone when close application, before updating to the latest version it was been working correctly, please review.

[Rapsssito]

@Mhp23, could you please confirm that this did not happen in 2.6.5 or 2.6.4?

[Mhp23]

@Rapsssito in v2.6.5 that I worked by it, it hadn't the problem and work correctly.

[AnagramEngineering]

I see the notification disappear as well after 1 min (it looked pretty exaxt) (Pixel3, Android 12).

(Application is in background, background process is still running (i see the console outputs) also after the notification went away)

my guess was that the system is maybe removing them automatically (as it's pretty exactly one minute until it's gone) but haven#t found anything on this topic.

i'm using the latest 2.6.6 version.

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🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.6.7 🎉

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[Rapsssito]

@AnagramEngineering @Mhp23 @AlenToma could you check if this is fixed in the last version as I reverted #124

[AnagramEngineering]

I can confirm this is working with 2.6.6 version. The notification is shown until the process is ended (which is happening after 5 minutes on my side (closing ble connection).

thx @Rapsssito

[AlenToma]

I am truly sorry I did not have time to test this with the other version, will try to make time to test it later on.