[GitHub] [cordova-plugin-geolocation] breautek commented on issue #165: Work on background

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breautek commented on issue #165:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-geolocation/issues/165#issuecomment-819633704


   > 2019 request and still this isn't available? Wow... well I'm sure going to abandon using this one.
   > Just to confirm, this plugin will not retrieve geolocation if you're running your app in background mode.
   
   To be clear, background processing is very limited on hybrid apps as the webview JS engine will be completely paused on iOS, and could be completely paused on some Android devices while the application is in the background.
   
   This means at most, we may be able to collect GPS events that occurred in the background, but can only be passed to your application once the application is brought back into the foreground. Obviously in most cases, you'd want to be able to react to background location events immediately to produce a notification to the user, or to do something with it so receiving a stream of location events that has happened sometime in the past isn't exactly ideal.
   
   Depending on the use case / requirements, the only workaround is to build a cordova plugin that contains your application business logic that responds to background location events.
   
   With that being said, there are [existing third-party plugins](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=cordova%20plugin%20background%20location) that do implement background location. 


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