[react-native] How to run at background

[yasintz]

I want to watch geofence changes even if the app is in the background. I am using react-native-background-actions library for background actions. When I start the background process, the indoor atlas works until I close the app. After that, I can see numbers provided by forloop (check the image) but there is no data logged for location or geofence.

[XahimA]

well I am telling you this from experience doing background tasks like geofence and activityrRecongnition is nearly immpossible if you need do it checkOut how bridging work in react native you have to create an bridge between react native app and native code where you have to write geofence implementation code in kotlin

[matti-ida]

Hi,

for Android, we recommend using a foreground service to run IndoorAtlas SDK on background. There is an example at
https://github.com/IndoorAtlas/android-sdk-examples/blob/master/Basic/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L102
https://github.com/IndoorAtlas/android-sdk-examples/blob/master/Basic/src/main/java/com/indooratlas/android/sdk/examples/foregroundservice/ForegroundService.java

for iOS you need appropriate background permissions, see iOS example:
https://github.com/IndoorAtlas/ios-sdk-examples/blob/master/example/sdk-examples-Info.plist#L37C7-L37C51
https://github.com/IndoorAtlas/ios-sdk-examples/blob/master/example/src/Examples/BackgroundViewController.m

Unfortunately we don't currently have any examples or direct way to set those up in the IndoorAtlas React Native plugin.

It's important to include android:foregroundServiceType="location" in the manifest foreground service declaration. By quick look it doesn't look like the RN library you linked uses that, maybe that is the issue ?