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I need to calculate distance from user location to specific location, when the app is in background, and get a local notification based on that.
Background location tracking is totally possible, and I have already done that, but is it possible to execute a block of code, containing some condition checking and based on that update and get a local notification?
I am not getting any proper solution. Is there any way to do so?
Can you help me please?
Yeah, you can definitely do that. I’m doing it in an app right now. Use significant location changes, or regions, as previously suggested, to keep the pressure off the users battery as much as possible.
We observe regions (and significant location changes where regions are not supported by the device) then check a few things and fire off a local notification if needs be.
We started with a basic prototype to prove the concept and I highly recommend that approach as a way to get familiar with the location and notification frameworks.