Cordova-plugin-background-geolocation: plugin_not_installed

[borjalo]

Trying to use the plugin, but when running on android device it says that the plugin is not installed

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 3.0.1
• Platform: Android
• OS version: 8.0.0
• Device manufacturer and model:
  
• Running in Simulator:
• Cordova version (cordova -v):
• Cordova platform version (cordova platform ls):
• Plugin configuration options:
• Link to your project:

Context

Building a Ionic 3 application, I have followed the steps to use the plugin:

ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-mauron85-background-geolocation@alpha
npm install --save @ionic-native/background-geolocation@4

and when trying to run the app in an Android device, message error plugin_not_installed is shown

Expected Behavior

Show an alert with the BackgroundGeolocationResponse

Actual Behavior

plugin_not_intalled error message

Possible Fix

I am trying other versions of the plugins and the new plugin @mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation

Steps to Reproduce

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Context

Debug logs

[felipegonzalez1994]

this.platform.ready().then(() => { logic plugin code}

[lucasprogamer]

Any solution?

[anRoswell]

You are installing version alpha, install https://github.com/mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation

[lucasprogamer]

@anRoswell yeah, i'm following the docs from ionic framework, https://ionicframework.com/docs/v3/native/background-geolocation/

[borjalo]

You have to install this package https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation and uninstall cordova-plugin-mauron85-background-geolocation@alpha

Or just follow this https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/background-geolocation. Despite is Ionic 4, it works in Ionic 3

This one https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-mauron85-background-geolocation is deprecated

[mauron85]

Try installing exact version with:

cordova plugin add @mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation@^3.1.0

[mauron85]

Also I believe there is still issue with scoped packages in cordova. Meaning that when you create platform with cordova platform add it may install also non scoped package cordova-plugin-background-geolocation. It's different package, so beware and remove it from package.json.

The best way to avoid this, is to add plugin in config.xml with spec declaration. Check https://github.com/mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation-example/blob/96b0497013f56515c2ab84a16eacceeb4826c31a/config.xml#L50

[anRoswell]

Thank you @mauron85 for your answer, i see there are an actualization about the plugin 3.1.0, i going to try you suggestion

[RaschidJFR]

Yes, the problem seems to be the scoped package, thanks for pointing that out @mauron85 . It didn't work for me to add it in config.xml because the plugin in package.json kept changing back to cordova-plugin-background-geolocation insteado of @mauron85/cordova-.... So what finally worked for me was adding the plugin directly in package.json so the correct plugin gets installed when adding or preparing the platform.

// package.json
{
  "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation": "^3.1.0",
  "cordova": {
    "plugins": {
      "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation": {}
    }
  }
}

After adding a platform, the old package keeps being added to the package.json but that doesn't seem to interfere so far.

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