Task Manager Location Update Crash Looper

[aryk]

I made this thread to tie together everything I’ve seen on this topic…maybe someone from Expo will respond there.

startLocationUpdatesAsync crashes app on SDK 38 / Android / Managed

In the Expo app and compiled version, having background fetching while the app is running crashes the app when opening after the app is killed: https://forums.expo.dev/t/task-manager-location-update-crash-looper/39769/7 https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/9415 https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/9570 Effectively startLocationUpdatesAsync is completely broken in the managed workflow for Android which means one cannot have a location-based app function properly in Expo’s managed workflow. I’v…