# mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation

Background and foreground geolocation plugin for React Native. Tracks user when app is running in background.

Repository: https://github.com/mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mauron85-react-native-background-geolocation
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-08-20T03:31:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3746, "days_push": 743, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1354, forks 562 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:28.712692+00:00)

## What it is
A React Native plugin providing background and foreground geolocation tracking, forked from a Cordova plugin. It supports battery-saving circular region monitoring and stop detection while tracking the user when the app runs in the background.

## Use cases
- track user location when app is in background
- battery-efficient geolocation monitoring in react native
- running a foreground location service on android
- detect when user stops moving
- geofencing with circular region monitoring
- log gps coordinates continuously on mobile

## When to choose
- you need location tracking in a React Native app while it is backgrounded
- you want battery-saving location strategies like stop detection
- you need a cross-platform Android/iOS geolocation plugin

## When to avoid
- you are not using React Native or Cordova
- you need active development with frequent updates
- your target devices aggressively kill background services and you cannot handle vendor-specific quirks

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: geospatial, mobile-framework, plugin-system
- domain: mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react-native, background-geolocation, location-tracking, cordova-fork, maps, android, ios

## Member repositories
- mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.712692+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:02.987920+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.712692+00:00, sha 42ca8e96a844)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.