Question about preventSuspend about react-native-background-geolocation HOT 5 CLOSED

You don’t need any of that.

preventSuspend doesn’t work after terminate. 99% of use-cases don’t need preventSuspend. You probably don’t need it.

the minimum distance to travel for tracking to engage (while in background / terminated) is 200 meters.

This is all easily experimented with in the iOS Simulator with location simulated with Freeway Drive and debug: true enabled.

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This is all easily experimented with in the iOS Simulator with location simulated with Freeway Drive and debug: true enabled.

Ever since I installed this API, I have not been able to use the iOS Simulator, I get this error when I try to run it: ERROR Invariant Violation: Your JavaScript code tried to access a native module that doesn't exist.

So I've been testing on a development build.

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I suggest you Google that and figure out how to fix it.

You’re wasting your time not being able to quickly experiment, answering questions in 30s that take 20 min of walking outside to test.

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yep, I had been testing by taking my dog for a walk around the block, after this exchange I decided to hop in the car and it turns out that my block has a radius < 200 meters. As soon as I exited the 200 meter radius the debugger came to life.

I wish we could make that radius smaller somehow...

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Adding this for posterity.

I am using Expo and my problem with the simulator was solved by creating a development build and installing the build in the simulator.

Here are the respective docs:
Creating a dev build: https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/create-a-build/

Installing dev build in the simulator: https://docs.expo.dev/build-reference/simulators/#installing-build-on-the-simulator

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