What is location in the background?

Android 10 features a background access location reminder, which increases transparency into how much access apps have to a device’s location and helps users maintain control over such access. In Android 9 and lower, an app can track a device’s location while running in the background without the user’s knowledge.

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What is a foreground service?

Foreground services are an advanced Android concept which allows you to display notifications to your users when running long lived background tasks . The notification acts like any other notification, however it cannot be removed by the user and lives for the duration of the service.

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