The Background Geolocation SDK runs in 20,000+ production apps across 140 countries. Accurate, durable, and built to survive everything the OS throws at it.
Every location is written to SQLite before any upload attempt. If the network is down for hours or days, nothing is lost. Locations upload automatically when connectivity returns.
An accelerometer-driven state machine decides when to poll GPS. The device uses near-zero battery when stationary and scales tracking frequency to speed when moving.
Tracking continues even after the OS kills the app. With headless background execution and a boot receiver, the SDK restarts automatically on reboot with no user interaction required.
Monitor unlimited circular or polygon geofence regions. Triggers fire reliably even when the app is terminated — no foreground process required.
We evaluated four different location APIs, but this plugin was the only one that didn't bloat our build. The latency is practically non-existent and the documentation made integration a one-day job. It just works.
Data durability
Every location is written to SQLite the moment it's recorded — before any upload attempt. If the network drops for minutes, hours, or days, nothing is queued in memory and nothing is lost. When connectivity returns, the HTTP queue drains automatically with exponential back-off. No polling. No manual retry logic in your app.
Always-on tracking
When the OS terminates your app under memory pressure, most location SDKs stop. This one doesn't. With headless background execution on Android and silent push on iOS, the SDK continues tracking and executing your location callbacks with no foreground process running. Set \`startOnBoot: true\` and tracking resumes automatically after a device reboot — no user interaction required.
Motion intelligence
Continuous GPS polling is what kills batteries and gets apps rejected from the App Store. This SDK uses an accelerometer-driven state machine instead. When the device is stationary, GPS is off and sensor polling draws near-zero power. When motion is detected, GPS activates and scales to the device's speed. The result is full location history without your app appearing at the top of the user's battery screen.
defines all geolocation-related options for the BackgroundGeolocation SDK.
start/stop behavior on terminate and reboot, headless/background behavior, periodic heartbeats, scheduler windows, foreground notifications, and the Android background-permission rationale dialog.
Controls how recorded locations are uploaded to your server. It defines the endpoint, HTTP verb, headers, params, batching behavior, and request timeouts.
The database acts as a durable buffer between data producers (locations, geofences) and consumers (your app code and the HTTP service).
The ActivityConfig object defines options related to motion and activity detection for the BackgroundGeolocation SDK.
A highly configurable, cross‑platform background location‑tracking plugin implementing the latest native APIs.
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