As the title suggests, im trying to listen for click-event from my connected BLE peripheral device even after my react-native app is killed/background mode.
While connected i have a notification subscription on my BLE peripheral device and everytime i press button on device, my app gets notified. I want this subscription to last even if the user kills the application.
The app works fine in foreground and inactive, but when i kill the app on iOS it stops responding to button click. On android i found a library react-native-background-actions which helped solve this. Here is the background code that is currently working on android.
import BackgroundJob from "react-native-background-actions";
playing = BackgroundJob.isRunning();
const sleep = (time) =>
new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve(), time));
BackgroundJob.on("expiration", () => {
console.log("iOS: I am being closed!");
});
const taskRandom = async (taskData) => {
if (Platform.OS === "ios") {
console.warn(
"This task will not keep your app alive in the background by itself, use other library like react-native-track-player that use audio,",
"geolocalization, etc. to keep your app alive in the background while you excute the JS from this library."
);
}
await new Promise(async (resolve) => {
// For loop with a delay
const { delay } = taskData;
console.log(BackgroundJob.isRunning(), delay);
for (let i = 0; BackgroundJob.isRunning(); i++) {
console.log("Ran -> ", i);
// await BackgroundJob.updateNotification({
// taskDesc: "Emergency -> " + i,
// });
await sleep(delay);
}
});
};
const options = {
taskName: "Example",
taskTitle: "ExampleTask title",
taskDesc: "ExampleTask desc",
taskIcon: {
name: "ic_launcher",
type: "mipmap",
},
color: "#ff00ff",
linkingURI: "exampleScheme://chat/jane",
parameters: {
delay: 30000,
},
};
/**
* Toggles the background task
*/
export const toggleBackground = async () => {
playing = !playing;
if (playing) {
try {
console.log("Trying to start background service");
await BackgroundJob.start(taskRandom, options);
console.log("Successful start!");
} catch (e) {
console.log("Error", e);
}
} else {
console.log("Stop background service");
await BackgroundJob.stop();
}
};
I tried reading the core bluetooth background processing for iOS apps and added a restoration identifier on my start method like this:
BleManager.start({
showAlert: true,
restoreIdentifierKey: "IDENTIFIER",
queueIdentifierKey: "IDENTIFIER",
}).then(() => {
console.log("Module initialized");
});
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to keep the subscription while app is in background? react-native-background-actions suggests audio or geolocation libraries, but these are not relevant for my application.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.