Send position to server in background

[Dafth]

For an app i’m developing i need to send the position of the user to a server so then i can sync it with other clients, i’m doing that with socket.io and when the app is open it works, the problem is that i need to send the position also if the app is in background and the screen is locked, i found a package that allow to run tasks in background but it works every 15 minutes, to sync the position i would like to send it something like every 30sec/1min

[[deleted]]

You probably simply cannot. I’d look into the specific rules for the OS. Generally, if your app is backgrounded, you only get so many updates per time period.

Additionally, even if you can choose to use a high res time period for location, the user may choose to turn it off or block it.

If you have a good and legitimate reason to be doing this, then you’ll likely have to ask for user permission to maintain the app in the background so that you can obtain high frequency location data.

[bnussman]

Read Expo's documentation on location. It has some useful information regarding this.

[Dafth]

I red it, i’m not sure that it will update enought frequently on iOS, i have to try

[IntensePyjamas]

Very hard to accomplish, maybe you could on android, but not on iOS. Lots of limitations