Question by le_duke · Feb 25, 2017 at 06:28 PM · android plugin background plugins sendmessage

App in background still receive UnityPlayer.UnitySendMessage from Android plugin, normal ?

Hi,

I'm working on a background geolocation plugin for an Unity App.

Basicly my plugin send geolocation updates to the App in order to display user position on a map and record a gps track.

I'm using this code to send back location to the Unity App:

 UnityPlayer.UnitySendMessage("GeolocationService", "geolocationChanged", location2JsonString(location));

It seems like that the Unity app receive and execute "geolocationChanged()" even if the app is in background, it's perfect for my usecase, but I'm a little bit surprised by this behaviour.

I was thinking that while the app is in background it was not going to receive the UnitySendMessage request because it is paused. And that I would have to store the missed location in an Array on the android side in order to get the missed values when the OnPause(false) event is fired.

Is it a normal behaviour that the UnitySendMessage is received and executed even if the App is in background ?

Thanks !

Duke

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chihchanglin · Aug 01, 2017 at 11:57 AM 0

Hi Duke, I'm interesting in background geolocation plugin for Unity . Is it possible to share this plugin? or can buy it on asset store? Thanks.

magehernan · Dec 12, 2018 at 09:50 PM 0

Hi, i am trying to disconnect from the server my app when it go to background, and i call the unitysendmessage and in c# it isn't executed until i open again my app. I am trying to do what you say but in my case it isn't working. I don't know what it is normal.