Expo Background Geolocation

Boilerplate for a background geolocation using Expo and it's Background Location Method.

Made by Dani Ramírez on Dec 2020.

Stack

This project uses:

• Expo
• Formik
• React Native

Requirements

To deploy this code you need node installed You can check if you have it installed by running:

npm -v

It must return something like 6.14.8

Also, you will need Explo Cli installed.

Installation

Download the repository and install it with npm

git clone https://github.com/endani/expo-background-geolocation.git my-project
cd my-project
npm install

Remember that npm install could take a while. It is completely normal, because that installs all the dependencies.

That's it! From now on, you can execute this command to run your compiled add.

expo start

Usage

This app is not connected to any backend and all the information is stored locally. You can login with some random user/password.

Android background service issues

There are repeatedly reported issues with some android devices not working in the background. Check if your device model is on dontkillmyapp list before you report new issue. For more information check out dontkillmyapp.com.