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Asked: 2026-05-31T07:49:15+00:00

I’d like to know if this is possible on either Android or iPhone: I

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I’d like to know if this is possible on either Android or iPhone:

I would like to have an application run in the background of the phone and send a GPS location to the server every N minutes. As far as I know this is difficult on the iPhone, but can it be done on an Android?

Thinking a bit more on the iPhone – could I create a web service that runs timers for each application and, on timer elapse, push a notification to the phone to start the GPS service and send the location information back to the server? Can I push notifications to an iPhone application in the background?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Re Android: yes, this is also possible, and just as with the iPhone, the less accuracy you need, the faster this will be. It is also asynchronous , so you will need a similar approach. As opposed to the iPhone though, you can start the GPS and wait for location updates in a background service, so that you can send the current location to the server whenever you have it.

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