Get location in background service

Ondrej 2 months ago

Is it possible to somehow get a location in the background service without showing or interacting with any foreground widget or app?

I want to create a background daemon that records my location throughout the day (e.g., once every hour) — something like Google History in maps. Showing notification or needing interaction with the user would be very annoying.

0 jim_m_58 2 months ago

You can't start GPS in a background service. Only in the main app of a widget or device app

0 andyj713 2 months ago

I had some code in a watch face background that got the current location and uploaded it to my web server. However, it's just the position it gets from the phone. There does not appear to be any way to initiate it, and it there does not appear to be any pattern to the frequency of update. Maybe a few minutes, maybe a few hours. I took a trip to Olympic NP and over 5 days it recorded about 270 unique locations. That's the best you're likely to get.

0 Ondrej 4 days ago in reply to andyj713

It is enough to get just the last known location without turning on the GPS.

0 jim_m_58 4 days ago in reply to Ondrej

When your main app starts, if Activity.Info.currentLocation is non null, you can save the lat/lon to Storage and then read it from Storage in the background service