React-native-background-geolocation: Documentation of ACTIVITY_PROVIDER wrong for IOS. Cant work in background.

[danielgindi]

As motion activity events are not triggered in the background,
The library will not start tracking location again when there's suitable motion.

The docs say "This one is best to use as foreground location provider (but works in background as well)" - this is misleading.

[mauron85]

This is true. It's misleading. Warnings should be added.

[hcyildirim]

Do we have any clues about the problem? Can I help you with that?

[mauron85]

@ccoeder there is not much we can do here (in terms of code). Only documentation needs to be updated, to state this provider has its limitations. Maybe in the future we can add fallback to geofencing when in background.

[anthonyhumphreys]

Is there no chance of using the ACTIVITY_PROVIDER? I was hoping to use this to ascertain the user's travel type to enhance the data we collect. Its a big loss to not have this :( Using the raw_provider now. ACTIVITY_PROVIDER simply does not work in the background for me on iOS

[mauron85]

It’s limitation of ios. Unfortunatelly.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 17:15, Anthony Humphreys [e-mail]
wrote:

Is there no chance of using the ACTIVITY_PROVIDER? I was hoping to use
this to ascertain the user's travel type to enhance the data we collect.
Its a big loss to not have this :( Using the raw_provider now.
ACTIVITY_PROVIDER simply does not work in the background for me on iOS

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[anthonyhumphreys]

Damn. Not for this issue really, but reckon i could find the activity type use BackgroundTask to call the activity api?

[ShafiqShams]

What locationProvider should we use for iOS 12.1.2?
Distance filter or Raw ? Which work in background as well.

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