What is the best way to receive location updates in background?

Question

I am trying to write an app that tracks location in background and sends data to a server -- to monitor where my family members are, for example.
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Answer 1

It comes out for Android 5 Lollipop it's better (much more stable) to use third-party library for bacground location receiving, namely io.nlopez.smartlocation.SmartLocation from 'io.nlopez.smartlocation:library:3.3.3', as decribed here, along with a foreground service, as Rudrik Patel mentioned. Works like a charm.