React-native-background-geolocation: How to stop showing location notification?

[Luckygirlllll]

Your Environment

Plugin version: "^0.5.0-alpha.34"
Platform: iOS or Android: Android
OS version: All
Device manufacturer and model: All
React Native version: 0.55.1
Plugin configuration options:

BackgroundGeolocation.configure({
       stopOnTerminate: true,
       desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.MEDIUM_ACCURACY,
       stationaryRadius: 1000,
       distanceFilter: 7000,
       notificationTitle: 'Route verification',
       notificationText: 'enabled',
       startOnBoot: true,
       stopOnTerminate: true,
       locationProvider: BackgroundGeolocation.DISTANCE_FILTER_PROVIDER,
       interval: 10000,
       fastestInterval: 5000,
       activitiesInterval: 10000,
       postTemplate: {
         lat: '@latitude',
         lng: '@longitude',
       },
       url: API.baseUrl + '/driver/location/',
       httpHeaders: {
         'Authorization': `Bearer ${props.accessToken}`,
       },
     })

I disabled location tracking when app is closed or in the background, but when app is opened, users still get notification (notificationTitle: 'Route verification', notificationText: 'enabled',). Is it possible to stop showing this location notification?

[mauron85]

Set startForeground false

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 10:24, Iryna Kanivets [e-mail]
wrote:

Your Environment

Plugin version: "^0.5.0-alpha.34"
Platform: iOS or Android: Android
OS version: All
Device manufacturer and model: All
React Native version: 0.55.1
Plugin configuration options:

BackgroundGeolocation.configure({
stopOnTerminate: true,
desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.MEDIUM_ACCURACY,
stationaryRadius: 1000,
distanceFilter: 7000,
notificationTitle: 'Route verification',
notificationText: 'enabled',
startOnBoot: true,
stopOnTerminate: true,
locationProvider: BackgroundGeolocation.DISTANCE_FILTER_PROVIDER,
interval: 10000,
fastestInterval: 5000,
activitiesInterval: 10000,
postTemplate: {
lat: '@latitude',
lng: '@longitude',
},
url: API.baseUrl + '/driver/location/',
httpHeaders: {
'Authorization': Bearer ${props.accessToken},
},
})

I disabled location tracking when app is closed or in the background, but
when app is opened, users still get notification (notificationTitle: 'Route
verification', notificationText: 'enabled',). Is it possible to stop
showing this location notification?

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[Luckygirlllll]

@mauron85 startForeground:false, should be inside the BackgroundGeolocation.configure() ? And it will stop the notification?

[Luckygirlllll]

Thanks!

[mauron85]

Normally it's the default value. But keep in mind, configure supports partial configuration.

So if you

.configure({ startForeground: false })

It will saved in configuration table and used even if you remove startForeground from subsequent configure calls.

[mauron85]

Fixed with PR https://github.com/mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation/pull/269

[rewieer]

Hey @mauron85, i disabled notifications and foreground services, yet the local notification remains.

    BackgroundGeolocation.configure({
      desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.PASSIVE_ACCURACY,
      distanceFilter: 1000,
      stationaryRadius: 1000,
      startOnBoot: true,
      stopOnTerminate: false,
      debug: false,
      locationProvider: BackgroundGeolocation.DISTANCE_FILTER_PROVIDER,
      notificationsEnabled: false,
      startForeground: false,
    });

Any hints on this ? Thanks !

EDIT : further investigations revealed that whenever the app goes to Paused, the BackgroundGeolocationFacade::pause is called, in which the startForeground function is called no matter the configuration.

EDIT 2 : i can assert that commenting this line indeed fixes the problem, and everything works fine. If this is just a matter of verifying the config, I can probably submit a PR.

[rewieer]

For those interested, my fix have been removed from this package for understandable reasons. Yet i've forked it at https://github.com/rewieer/react-native-background-geolocation.
It might serve as a temporary fix.

[mauron85]

@rewieer your "fix" will actually make plugin prone to be killed by the system anytime. This has been discussed many times here. Service must call startForeground when running in background. It may be tempting and also might work in some scenarios (like targeting old android apis), but I highly recommend to avoid this.

[rewieer]

I'd highly recommend to avoid this as well, but I needed it for my particular case and decided some people might need it too, albeit with the knowledge of the consequences.
Until now it worked fine on production in Android 9 devices (Samsung and Google phones).

[tienlongng95]

can we disable location notification on ios ?

[kristoff2016]

can we disable location notification on ios ? there are so many of them