Background tasks support | Voters

Background tasks support

complete

Josh

API for running background tasks. Could be scheduled, run on an interval or event driven.

July 22, 2017

Lars Moelleken

Is there a hack, lib or something like that to run background task for iOS and android? 🤔

Denis Prado Forigo

It will be nice!

Limoncello

Cool. So you need to update this:
https://docs.expo.io/versions/v32.0.0/introduction/why-not-expo/
as it says:
"Expo apps don't support background code execution (running code when the app is not foregrounded or the device is sleeping). This means you cannot use background geolocation, play audio in the background, handle push notifications in the background, and more. This is a work in progress."

Rajendran Nadar

Limoncello: play audio in the background & handle push notifications in the background is still not available.

Limoncello

Rajendran Nadar: Thank you for clarification. Is the handling of push notifications in the background planned?

Rajendran Nadar

Limoncello: Not yet but the background audio is in progress.

Slapbox

Rajendran Nadar: Is there document describing what is and is not possible?

Sello Mkantjwa

Slapbox: https://docs.expo.io/versions/v32.0.0/introduction/why-not-expo/

Rohov Dmytro

Rajendran Nadar: is background audio is still in progress?.. No pressure, but any ETA or place where I can track status? THanks

Rajendran Nadar

Rohov Dmytro: Use task manager to play audio in background

Fernando Rojo

Does anyone have an example repo / snack for this addition?

Colin Krist

Brent Vatne since background fetch for android hasn't been completed should a new feature request be created in order to make this a priority in your backlog?

Brent Vatne

Colin Krist: sure, sounds good

Colin Krist

@everyone I've created a canny request to vote on for this https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/android-background-fetch-support

Charles Oma

Thanks for the great work guys. I can see this feature is complete. Waited a long time for it. However in the docs it talks only about IOS. Does TaskManager work on Android?

Brent Vatne

marked this post as

complete

now supported for location and fetch, see https://docs.expo.io/versions/v32.0.0/sdk/task-manager - please open follow up requests for other specific use cases :)

Vignesh Rajendran

Looks like the PR mentioned is merged https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/2338. Kudos to the team behind this effort.

Slapbox

It would be great to be able to fire an alarm that wakes the device.

Ardy Febriansyah

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