expo-background-task
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Expo Android and iOS module for Background Task APIs
For managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo package before continuing.
npx expo install expo-background-task
No additional set up necessary.
Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.
In order to use BackgroundTask API in standalone, detached and bare apps on iOS, your app has to include the background task identifier in the Info.plist file. You can do this by adding the following XML snippet to your Info.plist file:
<key>BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers</key>
<array>
<string>com.expo.modules.backgroundtask.processing</string>
</array>
Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.
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Expo Android and iOS module for Background Task APIs
We found that expo-background-task demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 12 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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