Background Location Tracking for Android with Xamarin.Forms - xamarin

I am creating a xamarin form app which require user location after every 10 meter.
I am able to get location when app is running in foreground but unable to get location when app get into background.
Any advice will be great.

You need to create a background service in Xamarin.Android and then call that using dependency services. You could also look at Shiny. It is a good plugin built for this purpose.
https://github.com/shinyorg/shiny

Background updates are handled a bit different on each platform. For Android, you will want to integrate a foreground service that subscribes to location changes and the user interface binds to.
You could use the Xamarin.Essentials and MessagingCenter for this.
For more details, please check the code sample in the link below. https://stackoverflow.com/a/63665571/11850033

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I am creating a Store Build for my UWP app. I would like the app to run automatically (without user intervention) once installed on end-user device. Is that possible? If so, how?
I’m afraid you can’t let the app run automatically after installation.
Currently, uwp doesn’t provide such api to do this. If you do want this feature, please feel free to submit your feature requirement with Windows Feedback Hub app.

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My app setup is a basic new app with default viewController with the default classes for share extension on iOS 11.2.
The host AppDelegate class FinishedLaunching never gets called.
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Link to the sample app:
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Any idea whats going wrong?
Do you want to open the app which you created with the share extension, when user clicks the share button to use this share extension? If so, this app should be called Containing App.
But unfortunately, there's no way to do this on iOS8.3+ except Today Extension. From this post we know that:
The intended approach for share extensions is that they handle all of
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Also from the Apple documentation about extension:
An extension’s UI should be simple, restrained, and focused on
facilitating a single task.
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I have found that "Services..." a very useful place to add functionality via AppleScript.
I have written a small OS X app that uploads documents to a web based service (it requires OAuth2) and thought it would be great to add this functionality to the "Services" submenu. For example, when I am viewing a pdf in Preview to upload directly from a Services item.
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I DO NOT want the user to use 2 different apps (DJI GO to control the drone and capture photos) and our custom app to (import from DJI) and upload the photos to server. Would rather have everything as part of my custom App.
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Anyone know how to do this?
Cheers!
as #Derek said, you can update the tile using the tile schedule, but will take an hour minimum before the phone updates the tile.
i have written a tutorial on how to update the tile instantly here:
http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2011/04/03/windows-phone-7-live-tile-schedules-ndash-executing-instant-live-tile-updates
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hope this helps
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Thanks for the info!
It won't be an image from the app, as the xml files I'm downloading are pointing to the correct image. Not sure about the format, but I guess setting up my own server to proxy the request and resize the icon as needed wouldn't be too hard.
But it's really sad we cannot manipulate the tile image for 'this' from within our own app...

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