--- title: Not all who wander are lost | daily.dev description: A practical guide to implementing background location tracking in an Expo app using expo-location and expo-task-manager. Covers installation, configuring... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-ggrwmvo4p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Not all who wander are lost | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to implementing background location tracking in an Expo app using expo-location and expo-task-manager. Covers installation, configuring... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-ggrwmvo4p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ggrWMVo4P.png og:image:alt: Not all who wander are lost og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Not all who wander are lost **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to implementing background location tracking in an Expo app using expo-location and expo-task-manager. Covers installation, configuring permissions in app.json for both iOS and Android, requesting foreground and background location permissions, registering a background task with startLocationUpdatesAsync, and handling location data callbacks. Also demonstrates visualizing the recorded route using Mapbox, and notes a known issue with Huawei devices requiring battery optimization to be disabled for background updates to work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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