transistorsoft/nativescript-background-geolocation-lt

iOS App terminated permanently when Killed although stopOnTerminate is set false

tangjh opened this issue · 2 comments

tangjh commented

Your Environment

  • Plugin version: ^1.9.0-beta.4
  • Platform: iOS
  • OS version: 11.4.1
  • Device manufacturer / model: Apple / iPhone SE
  • Nativescript version (tns info):

✔ Getting NativeScript components versions information...
⚠ Update available for component nativescript. Your current version is 4.1.2 and the latest available version is 4.2.4.
⚠ Update available for component tns-core-modules. Your current version is 4.1.1 and the latest available version is 4.2.1.
✖ Component tns-android is not installed.
⚠ Update available for component tns-ios. Your current version is 4.1.1 and the latest available version is 4.2.0.

  • Plugin config

          reset: true,
      debug: true, 
      logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE,
      desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
      distanceFilter: 1,
      stopTimeout: 1,
      autoSync: true,
      stopOnTerminate: false,
      startOnBoot: true,
      foregroundService: true,
      heartbeatInterval: 60,
      username: 'transistor-ns',
      enableHeadless: true

Expected Behavior

The Background GeoLocation service should continue.

Actual Behavior

The app got terminated with the following message:
....
{"msg":"state transition", "event":"state_transition", "state":"LocationManager", "id":"0x1c020a410", "property":"updatingLocation", "old":1, "new":0}
[TSBackgroundFetch onAppTerminate]
[TSBackgroundFetch stop]

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Start App
  2. Let it run and receive notification of movement
  3. Double click on Home button
  4. Swipe to remove the app

Context

Testing the library to make sure it can be used for project

Debug logs

See above ... [Actual Behavior]

christocracy commented

There's nothing you can do to stop the user from terminating an app if that's their will.

However, when that device moves about 200 meters, iOS will relaunch your app in the background and tracking will resume.

tangjh commented

It does for TS. But not for NG version.