Background Tasks

Schedule and run artisan commands in the background on iOS and Android using platform-native schedulers (WorkManager on Android, BGTaskScheduler on iOS).

Features

• Scheduled artisan command execution on iOS and Android
• Independent task scheduling with individual intervals
• Device constraint support (network, charging, battery, storage, idle states)
• Long-running task capability for extended operations
• Cold boot handling with transparent PHP process management

Installation

Requires Composer credentials for the NativePHP plugin repository.

composer config repositories.nativephp-plugins composer https://plugins.nativephp.com
composer config http-basic.plugins.nativephp.com your@email.com your-license-key
composer require nativephp/mobile-background-tasks
php artisan native:plugin:register nativephp/mobile-background-tasks

Compatibility

Platform	Minimum Version
NativePHP	^3.2.1
iOS	16.0+
Android	API 26+

Scheduling API

Schedule::command('your:command')
    ->onAnyNetwork()
    ->whileCharging()
    ->whenBatteryNotLow()
    ->whenStorageNotLow()
    ->whenIdle()
    ->longRunning();

Trigger immediately with BackgroundTasks::runNow().