geofence_foreground_service 1.0.5

A Flutter project that creates a foreground service to handle geofencing.

geofence_foreground_service

A Flutter plugin that enables you to easily handle geofencing events in your Flutter app by creating a foreground service while being battery efficient since it uses the Geofence and WorkManager APIs.

It's important to note that the workmanager plugin was a great source of inspiration while creating this plugin.

Features

• Supports geofencing in foreground as well as background 💪: The plugin utilizes the Foreground service API to stay running even after killing the app, ensuring all time geofence tracking.
• Geofence a circular area 🗺️: You can add an ordinary geofence which is a point surrounded by a given radius.
• Geofence a polygon 🤯: You can add a geofence using a list of coordinates, the system will calculate the center of them and register it, having full polygon support is a WIP 🚧
• Notification customization 🔔: Displaying a notification when running a foreground service is mandatory, we can customize what is being displayed on it (title and content), the plugin displays the app icon by default.

Installation

Add the following dependency to your pubspec.yaml file:

geofence_foreground_service: ^<latest>

Setup

🔧 Android Setup

• Enable MultiDex, you can check how to do so here
• Add the service to the AndroidManifest.xml inside the application tag

<service android:name="com.f2fk.geofence_foreground_service.GeofenceForegroundService" />

Example

Define the method that will handle the Geofence triggers

import 'package:geofence_foreground_service/exports.dart';
import 'package:geofence_foreground_service/geofence_foreground_service.dart';
import 'package:geofence_foreground_service/models/zone.dart';

// This method is a top level method
@pragma('vm:entry-point')
void callbackDispatcher() async {
  GeofenceForegroundService().handleTrigger(
    backgroundTriggerHandler: (zoneID, triggerType) {
      log(zoneID, name: 'zoneID');

      if (triggerType == GeofenceEventType.enter) {
        log('enter', name: 'triggerType');
      } else if (triggerType == GeofenceEventType.exit) {
        log('exit', name: 'triggerType');
      } else if (triggerType == GeofenceEventType.dwell) {
        log('dwell', name: 'triggerType');
      } else {
        log('unknown', name: 'triggerType');
      }

      return Future.value(true);
    },
  );
}

Then create an instance of the plugin to initiate it and assign GeoFences to it

final GeofenceForegroundService _geofenceForegroundServicePlugin = GeofenceForegroundService();

final List<LatLng> timesSquarePolygon = [
  const LatLng(40.758078, -73.985640),
  const LatLng(40.757983, -73.985417),
  const LatLng(40.757881, -73.985493),
  const LatLng(40.757956, -73.985688),
];

Future<void> initPlatformState() async {
  // Remember to handle permissions before initiating the plugin

  bool hasServiceStarted = await _geofenceForegroundServicePlugin.startGeofencingService(
    contentTitle: 'Test app is running in the background',
    contentText: 'Test app will be running to ensure seamless integration with ops team',
    notificationChannelId: 'com.app.geofencing_notifications_channel',
    serviceId: 525600,
    callbackDispatcher: callbackDispatcher,
  );

  if (hasServiceStarted) {
    await _geofenceForegroundServicePlugin.addGeofenceZone(
      zone: Zone(
        id: 'zone#1_id',
        radius: 10000,
        coordinates: timesSquarePolygon,
      ),
    );
  }
}

Something important to point out is the callbackDispatcher method will run in an entirely different isolate than the actual app, so if you were to handle UI related code inside of it you'll need to use Ports, you can find more information here

Notes

Handling permissions is not a part of the package, so please refer to permission_handler plugin to grant the required permissions (it's used in the example too)

• location
• locationAlways
• notification

Contributing Guidelines

We welcome contributions from the community. If you'd like to contribute to the development of this plugin, please feel free to submit a PR to our GitHub repository._