background_location_tracker
A Flutter plugin that allows you to track the background location for Android & iOS
What this package is like to depend on
Last release 1 years ago
06 Aug 2025
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 4 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 13 of 14 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
5 years old
14 releases · first in 2021
0 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
14 releases · Jun 2021 to Aug 2025
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Releases
latest 14-
1.6.106 Aug 2025Release notes
Open source →- Fixed callback being called once in Android (improved handling) (#91)
- Fixed "FlutterJNI.loadLibrary/prefetchDefaultFontManager/init called more than once"
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1.6.022 May 2025Release notes
Open source →- Updated to use the modern FlutterPlugin.FlutterPluginBinding pattern
- Deprecated Registrar, PluginRegistrantCallback, and ShimPluginRegistry usage
- Added backward compatibility for older Flutter versions
- Improved handling of plugin registration in background execution
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1.5.029 Jan 2025 -
1.4.426 Nov 2024Nothing published for this version
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1.4.328 Mar 2024Release notes
Open source →- Updated targetSdkVersion to 34 and added FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION for support Android 14
- Removed unrecognized_error_code from analysis_options.yaml
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1.4.117 Jul 2023 -
1.4.011 Jan 2023Release notes
Open source →- Added extra fields. (-1 if not supported or not available)
- horizontalAccuracy
- alt
- verticalAccuracy (Android > O)
- course
- courseAccuracy (iOS > 13.4 & Android > O)
- speed
- speedAccuracy (Android > O)
- Added extra fields. (-1 if not supported or not available)
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1.3.114 Dec 2022 -
1.3.012 Sep 2022Release notes
Open source →- Added support for android sdk 33
- Updated dependencies
- Updated kotlin
- Fixed the breaking changes on the native android side
- Updated the example project to save the background locations to shared prefs
- Updated the example project & readme to use the
@pragma('vm:entry-point')annotation
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1.2.015 Nov 2021Release notes
Open source →- Added iOS specific options to restart the tracking after killing the app
- Added option to Android specific options to only get updates every x meters
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1.1.012 Oct 2021Release notes
Open source →#Added
- Added more options to android config to specify update interval
- Added iOS specific options to control activity type and/or distance filter
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1.0.222 Jun 2021 -
1.0.122 Jun 2021 -
1.0.022 Jun 2021Release notes
Open source →Initial release
- Background location tracking
- Nullsafety
- Android v1 & v2 embedding support