Periodic iOS background location updates

Question

I\'m writing an application that requires background location updates with high accuracy and low frequency. The solution seems to be a background NSTimer t

Answer 1

After iOS 8 their are several changes in CoreLocation framework related background fetch and updations made by apple.

1) Apple introduce the AlwaysAuthorization request for fetching the location update in the application.

2) Apple introduce backgroundLocationupdates for fetching location from background in iOS.

For fetching location in background you need to enable Location Update in Capabilities of Xcode.

//
//  ViewController.swift
//  DemoStackLocation
//
//  Created by iOS Test User on 02/01/18.
//  Copyright © 2018 iOS Test User. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import CoreLocation

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var locationManager: CLLocationManager = CLLocationManager()
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        startLocationManager()
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    internal func startLocationManager(){
        locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
        locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest
        locationManager.delegate = self
        locationManager.allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true
        locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
    }

}

extension ViewController : CLLocationManagerDelegate {

    func locationManager(_ manager: CLLocationManager, didUpdateLocations locations: [CLLocation]){
        let location = locations[0] as CLLocation
        print(location.coordinate.latitude) // prints user's latitude
        print(location.coordinate.longitude) //will print user's longitude
        print(location.speed) //will print user's speed
    }

}