Get background location updates periodically stops

Question

I'm building a simple android application which basically gets the device's location periodically in the background every minute using Fused Location Services.

I've implemented the application based on this tutorial https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/background-location-updates-android-o/#0

So far the application is working fine getting the location as I need it (every minute) while I use the device every now and then. I tried another testing scenario where I left the device overnight to gather location updates and the day after I looked at the locations history that I'm saving for every location update. I noticed that the location updates were as follows:

• first few hours location updates were every minute (as expected)
• then it started getting location every approx 10 minutes for another few minutes
• then it stopped for several hours without getting any location updates

After this I grabbed the device and traveled from one place to another and without even turning on the screen of the device it started getting the location updates every minute while I traveled. (This might have happened coincidentally)

NOTE: The above testing scenarios were done on devices which are pre-oreo.

QUESTIONS:

1. Could it be that the device starts getting the location updates every minute when it detects automatically that it started moving from one place to another and then it stops getting the location updates as soon as it detects that the device is at the same position for some hours?

2. Is there a recommended way to keep getting location updates always every minute and even when the device is at the same location and not being used?

We need to keep getting location updates as the updates are being used as a heartbeat of the application.

Answer 1

you also can use this solution :

check if location is not received for 2 min stop and then start location update.