Get location (background and foreground) every 5 minutes for private app

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Hi,

i’m developping a private application. I have to get location every 5 minutes and send it to my webservices, even if the application is in background

This app is private and is not submited in app stores.

Do you have a solution or an idea for this problem ?

Thanx for your help :smile:

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You can use the Cordova GeoLocation plugin for that and implement a watchPosition so that it sends back location data every time the geolocation of the device changes.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-geolocation

Then you can just wrap this in a function that waits every 5 minutes to broadcast the data.

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Hi !

Thanx for your help. Your plugin works if the application is in background ?

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If you need background geolocation then perhaps you’ll want to check this plugin out:

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Hi,

I tried this plugin and it’s work very fine ! Thanks to his author and thanks to you for your help !

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Plugin author here. Vastly improved premium version available here

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lol love the floating chat picture on the site :slight_smile:

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Which plugin did you tried to achieve this, Please help.

I am also trying to location for every 5 mins

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You cannot think in terms of time with iOS, you must think in terms of distance (ie: distanceFilter).

You don’t say “I want a location every 5 minutes”, you say “I want a location every kilometre”

However, if you use my iOS-only background-fetch plugin, this will awaken your app in the background about every 15 min. You can use any geolocation plugin you wish to execute a #getCurrentPosition in the fetch callback.

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It’s working on Android and iOS?
Can i do an http.get(lan.ip) every 15 minutes?
What happens if i kill the app?

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