[Bug]: Notification + Background Job

[South2AK]

[Bug]: Notification + Background Job

[aritchie]

Jobs are periodic, not scheduled, so your timing won't work out well.

You have to use RequestAccess for notifications (and pretty much everything in Shiny) in the foreground to get the users permission.

[South2AK]

Hi Aritchie,

I did ask for the permissions and allowed them on the phone, but it doesnt Show anything on where ios nor android even though i ve been running it for hours now.

Any ideas?

[aritchie]

Im not going to guess. You have to submit a sample.

Try sending a notification in the foreground to ensure notifications is setup properly. Jobs will run, but it can be hours before they do

[South2AK]

I´ll create a example as fast as I can but it will take some time...

Foreground works as intended.

Also what I´ve found out is that in foreground the console has a log with shinyjobs entries in it, but when I set RunOnForeground to false nothing get´s written in it

[aritchie]

I would encourage you to look into the code and how the perspective platforms work. You basically have to wait until jobs start running. I run this scenario all over the place.

[South2AK]

Okay...

I left them open yesterday for the whole day but nothing really happened unfortunately. What I just found out is, the first time I open the App on android or on IOS I´ll receive a notification immediately.

Is there maybe a task needed which repeats it self in background mode?

[aritchie]

If you're swiping away the app or killing the debugger, you're killing the app which prevents things from running.

The sample app in this repo does this stuff and works. Please provide a reproducible sample, I'll take a look, but this seems like a case of misunderstanding of how periodic jobs work on the platforms.