Can GPS watchPosition() run in the background on androids?

Question

Android

Greetings.
I tried a lot of different developments like this one: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-socra...
I just can't get the application to send coordinate data to the server in the background.
In almost all cases, it turns out to send data only once during the minimization of the application, and then the GPS goes out and nothing happens.
Something suggests that it’s possible that it’s impossible to make GPS work in the background at all (namely, watchPosition, that is, constant tracking, send data in the background, for example, every 5 seconds), is that so?

Answer 1

Currently, this is only possible when starting the service via startForeground().

Answer 2

Have you tried calling coordinates via setinterval?
it certainly slows down every 30 times in the background but it works