How can I run background tasks in react-native?

A Headless JS is a RN service able to encapsulate some javascript operations and execute them detached from the application, like an android service . The headless service can do any kind of operation, except UI operations.

Headless JS is a way to run tasks in JavaScript while your app is in the background . It can be used, for example, to sync fresh data, handle push notifications, or play music.19 Oca 2022

Headless JS is available only for Android , therefore, we’ll focus only on Android development in this article. First, let’s go over some fundamental tools that we’ll use.16 Ara 2021

Show activity on this post. Currently, there is, unfortunately, no support for background tasks of any kind . The feature you are referring to would be a background timer. Such a timer is this product pain (a feature request) for react native, you may upvote it to show an increased demand for this feature.