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Amir Peivandi
Amir Peivandi

Reputation: 369

phonegap with geolocation in background in IOS

All, I'm working on an application that uses geolocation services provided by phonegap (using latest version 2.2.0. I'm testing this for now only on IOS (ultimately I wanted to work at least on Android as well). On IOS when application in foreground all works fine. When the application goes to background however the geocoding stops working and I don't get the change position event anymore. I do have the required "App registers for location updates" under Required background modes section of my app-info plist and I've done ISO coding using this flag and my application reports the location change even when app is in background so I was wondering why this is not working on phonegap.

I'm not doing any fancy work. My code is simply a copy of what cordova code is for watchPosition.

Any pointers or help would be appreciated.

Amir

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3251

Answers (1)

Nick Roth
Nick Roth

Reputation: 3077

The problem is that JavaScript in PhoneGap does not run when the app is in the background. To provide background process capability you'll need to create a plugin to manage the background process.

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/guide_plugin-development_index.md.html

I know of an already existing plugin to do this for Android but not one for iOS.

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/BackgroundService

Upvotes: 1

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