What I wish I knew before working with background location
summary
Recommends using flutter background geoloccation (11 years of native SDK maturity, €360 Android release fee, free on iOS) for offline SQLite storage plus HTTP sync, automatic retries, batching and motion detection; prefers distance filters over time schedules to save battery; uses postgress + postgis for geospatial types and indices — 1M rows nearest-100 query ~200 ms, 10M ~1.7 s; suggests location mocking with Lito and Rocket Sim and warns stores reject apps without a strong background-location justification.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Background location in Flutter
- 2:06Recommended plugin
- 4:20Accuracy versus battery life
- 7:10Geospatial data types
- 10:00Mocking location for testing
- 11:24Real-world user testing
- 12:06App store compliance
- 12:48Key takeaways
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