BackgroundGeolocation.ready call not setting state.enabled to true and intermittent geolocation failures on real devices

[Bharatkt]

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 4.15.2
• Platform: Android
• OS version: android 12
• Device manufacturer / model: realme
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.72.4
• Plugin config

import React from 'react';
import {Switch, Text, View} from 'react-native';

import BackgroundGeolocation, {
  Location,
  Subscription,
} from 'react-native-background-geolocation';
// import React, {useEffect, useState} from 'react';
import {sendLocations} from '../../../services/user';
import {useSelector} from 'react-redux';
import {useToast} from '../CustomToast/ToastContext';

const LocationUpdater = () => {
  const {showToast} = useToast();
  const userId = useSelector(state => state.profileSetup.userId);
  const token = useSelector(state => state.auth.token);

  const [enabled, setEnabled] = React.useState(true);
  const sendLocationToServer = async location => {
    try {
      if (!userId) throw new Error('User id not available');
      const data = {
        onboardingDataId: userId,
        location,
      };
      const res = await sendLocations({token, data});
      showToast('success', 'Location sent', res.message);
    } catch (error) {
      // console.error('Error sending location to server:', error);
      showToast('error', 'Issue sending location', error.message);
    }
  };

  React.useEffect(() => {
    /// 1.  Subscribe to events.
    const onLocation = BackgroundGeolocation.onLocation(async location => {
      console.warn('[onLocation]', location);
      await sendLocationToServer(location);
    });

    const onMotionChange = BackgroundGeolocation.onMotionChange(event => {
      console.log('[onMotionChange]', event);
    });

    const onActivityChange = BackgroundGeolocation.onActivityChange(event => {
      console.log('[onActivityChange]', event);
    });

    const onProviderChange = BackgroundGeolocation.onProviderChange(event => {
      console.log('[onProviderChange]', event);
    });

    /// 2. ready the plugin.
    BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
      // Geolocation Config
      desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
      distanceFilter: 1,
      // Activity Recognition
      stopTimeout: 5,
      // Application config
      debug: false, // <-- enable this hear sounds for background-geolocation life-cycle.
      logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE,
      stopOnTerminate: false, // <-- Allow the background-service to continue tracking when user closes the app.
      startOnBoot: true, // <-- Auto start tracking when device is powered-up.
    }).then(state => {
      // setEnabled(state.enabled);
      console.warn(
        '- BackgroundGeolocation is configured and ready: ',
        state.enabled,
      );
    });

    return () => {
      // Remove BackgroundGeolocation event-subscribers when the View is removed or refreshed
      // during development live-reload.  Without this, event-listeners will accumulate with
      // each refresh during live-reload.
      onLocation.remove();
      onMotionChange.remove();
      onActivityChange.remove();
      onProviderChange.remove();
    };
  }, [userId]);

  /// 3. start / stop BackgroundGeolocation
  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (enabled) {
      BackgroundGeolocation.start();
    } else {
      BackgroundGeolocation.stop();
    }
  }, [enabled, userId]);

  return null;
};

export default LocationUpdater;

Expected Behavior

It should request permission on real devices, and it should also acquire background location and call the API to retrieve the location.

Actual Behavior

It's not asking for permission when the mobile app is on, and even when we manually enable all permissions, it's still not retrieving the location from both the background and foreground.

Steps to Reproduce

Context

We have attempted to retrieve the location and send it to the backend, essentially.

Debug logs

Logs

05-06 17:52:01.294  2280  2280 D TSLocationManager:   🎾  start [ActivityRecognitionService  startId: 1, eventCount: 1]
05-06 17:52:01.302  2280  2480 D TSLocationManager: [c.t.l.s.ActivityRecognitionService a] 
05-06 17:52:01.302  2280  2480 D TSLocationManager:   🚘 ️DetectedActivity [type=STILL, confidence=100]
05-06 17:52:01.339  2280  2480 D TSLocationManager: [c.t.l.service.AbstractService a] 
05-06 17:52:01.339  2280  2480 D TSLocationManager:   ⚙️︎   FINISH [ActivityRecognitionService startId: 1, eventCount: 0, sticky: false]
05-06 17:52:01.588  2280  2280 D TSLocationManager: [c.t.l.service.AbstractService f] 
05-06 17:52:01.588  2280  2280 D TSLocationManager:   ⚙️︎  ActivityRecognitionService.stopSelfResult(1): true
05-06 17:52:01.593  2280  2280 D TSLocationManager: [c.t.l.service.AbstractService onDestroy] 
05-06 17:52:01.593  2280  2280 D TSLocationManager:   🔴  ActivityRecognitionService stopped

[christocracy]

Calling .start() -> State.enabled: true
Calling .stop() -> State.enabled: false

[Bharatkt]

We are experiencing issues with real devices when testing the release version. While the simulator works as expected in the foreground and provides the location accurately, on real devices, even after moving 2-3 miles, we are unable to obtain the location. Additionally, upon launching the app on a real device, it does not prompt for background/location permission, which it does on the simulator.

Thanks.

Calling .start() -> State.enabled: true Calling .stop() -> State.enabled: false

[christocracy]

See wiki “Debugging”. Learn how to obtain the plug-in log database using method .emailLog.

also see https://dontkillmyapp.com

[Bharatkt]

@christocracy Can you please help me solve the version issue with googlePlayServicesVersion? I changed it from 17.0.0 to 21.0.1 according to the reference, but now the android app crashes when i open it. Please help me resolve this version issue and here is the my android/build.gradle file code.

android/build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {

        //new imp
        // googlePlayServicesVersion = "+"
        // firebaseMessagingVersion = "21.1.0"

        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
        minSdkVersion = 26
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33

        // We use NDK 23 which has both M1 support and is the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
        ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
        appCompatVersion 	= "1.4.2" 
        googlePlayServicesVersion = "21.0.1" 
        // googlePlayServicesVersion = "20.0.0" 
        // googlePlayServicesIidVersion = "17.0.0" 
        // googlePlayServicesVersion = "17.0.0" 
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" } // Add this line
        
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle")
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")  

        // new imp
         classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15'

    }
    allprojects {
        repositories {
            google()
            mavenCentral()
            
            // FaceTecSDK: Add directory to find native .aar file
            flatDir {
                dirs 'libs'
            }

            // Required for react-native-background-geolocation
            maven { url("${project(':react-native-background-geolocation').projectDir}/libs") }
            maven { url 'https://developer.huawei.com/repo/' }
            // Required for react-native-background-fetch
            maven { url("${project(':react-native-background-fetch').projectDir}/libs") }
        }
    }
}

[christocracy]

When you have a crash, the first thing to do is fetch the stacktrace from $ adb logcat. See wiki “Debugging”.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.