Background downloading on IOS

[7ammer]

Hello :)
Can this module do background downloading for IOS? It looks like android can achieve this but I can't seem to get the same result on IOS.
Cheers

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

IOS simulator's, not tried on a real device yet.

Please, provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

CLI 4.0.0

"tns-android": {
  "version": "3.4.2"
},
"tns-ios": {
    "version": "3.4.1"
}
"tns-core-modules": "~3.4.1",
"nativescript-theme-core": "^1.0.4",
"nativescript-vue": "^1.3.1",
"tns-core-modules": "~3.4.1",
"nativescript-fonticon": "^1.1.1",
"nativescript-gradient": "^2.0.1",
"nativescript-localstorage": "^1.1.5",
"nativescript-social-share": "^1.5.0",
"nativescript-videoplayer": "^4.0.0",
"nativescript-webview-interface": "^1.4.2",
"nativescript-audio": "^4.3.5",
"nativescript-animated-circle": "^1.1.0",
"nativescript-downloader": "^2.0.0"

[shivgolani]

@7ammer @triniwiz Background Downloading for IOS is not working. Any alternatives?

[nicHoch]

background download on IOS would be nice!

[triniwiz]

I'll look into it

[7ammer]

Hello @triniwiz 👋

Thanks for this package and your time. I was just wondering if you had any further thoughts on this.

Many Thanks

[7ammer]

Hello
After messing around with NSURLSession for a while it seems that this issue maybe due to this package's use of NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration instead of NSURLSessionConfiguration.backgroundSessionConfigurationWithIdentifier.

I see that you've actually written it but commented it out in the code:

nativescript-downloader/src/downloader.ios.ts

Line 31 in 0b5b005

// NSURLSessionConfiguration.backgroundSessionConfigurationWithIdentifier("NSDownloader");

.
I was wondering what the cause was for commenting it out and if we could apply it again?

Many thanks

[7ammer]

Hello 👋

It looks like updating AFNetworking to '4.0' resolves this issue!

See my pull request:
#45