Updating in background?

[zackify]

How would you propose updating the activities in the background?

could you run a background task in react native that calls updateActivity periodically?

Or would you have to setup the push notification flow

[anthlasserre]

If you want to support background tasks at some point I think you can use that library https://github.com/ocetnik/react-native-background-timer

[anthlasserre]

@zackify I can confirm that this is working great.

[mrados7]

@anthlasserre I will give this a try, I thought you cannot update anything in background from javascript as it is being "killed" when using React Native.
One solution that I know will work for a fact is to use Apple APN service to send live notification update.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/activitykit/updating-live-activities-with-activitykit-push-notifications

[anthlasserre]

Yeah indeed, the best solution ever to update Live Activity widgets is to populate the values through push notifications payload. For instance 3rd parties like Braze & OneSignal already support these features.

[anthlasserre]

As this issue is outside the scope of React Native, should we close it, @mrados7 ?

[mrados7]

@anthlasserre I agree, you can close this one.

[anthlasserre]

@zackify ?

[Jamal-Ud-Din-hub]

@anthlasserre can we update it using push notification?

[anthlasserre]

@anthlasserre can we update it using push notification?

Yes, we can, thanks to broadcast push notifications that Apple delivered this year. This is a recommended process if you want to update data from an external service. I think we can close that issue by the way. What do you think @cristianoalves92 @G2Jose ?