background-geolocation

[4ware]

I would love to migrate our app to ionic2 but this could not be done without this plugin.

[keithdmoore]

@4ware Are you talking about this plugin? https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-background-geolocation-lt

[4ware]

@keithdmoore It might be wiser to use https://github.com/mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation since the original plugin moved to some paid "premium" scheme now.

[vfdev-5]

I'd like to try write a wrapper in my fork
However, I do not understand how can I test it with an app...

[ihadeed]

hey @vfdev-5

I see you added the interfaces for now. Next step would be to add wrappers for the functions, then add the plugin to index.ts.

Once you're done with that run npm run build_bundle to compile the library and have something that you can import in a Cordova project and test.

[vfdev-5]

Hi @ihadeed
I added wrappers for the functions and the plugin to the index.ts as you said. The compilation is OK and I 'tested' it with a demo application - ionic 2 version of this
What is the next step, pull-request, ... ?

[ihadeed]

@vfdev-5 yes if the functionality works submit a PR and I'll review & merge.

[joshgarwood]

Is ionic-native now using this plugin instead of the one from mauron85? I recently got the latest ionic2 build (beta8), installed the mauron85 plugin, and imported ionic-native, but it looks like the configure function is now a promise instead of an observable:

    var backgroundOptions = {
            desiredAccuracy: 10,
            stationaryRadius: 10,
            distanceFilter: 30,
            debug: false
        };

        // This seems to work
        BackgroundGeolocation.configure(backgroundOptions).then((location) => {
            // do cool stuff here
            BackgroundGeolocation.finish();
        }).catch((err) => {
                console.log(err);
        });


        // this does not
        BackgroundGeolocation.configure(
            location => {
               // do cool stuff here
                BackgroundGeolocation.finish();
            }, 
            err => {
                console.log(err);
            }, 
            backgroundOptions);

The documentation suggests that the second implementation should work. So I'm just trying to figure out the proper way to do this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[vfdev-5]

@joshgarwood, you are right, there is a problem with the documentation. As you suggest, the first method is the right one.