Android: Firebase Update Issue When the app is in background

Question

Hey I m going to develop an location tracker app in which, this app in client device which constantly send it location to the firebase db. Here the problem is that it will send

Answer 1

To get more information about why the database writes are not completing after 3 minutes, add a CompetionListener to your setValue():

reference.setValue(mLocations, new DatabaseReference.CompletionListener() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(DatabaseError databaseError, DatabaseReference databaseReference) {
        if (databaseError == null) {
            Log.i(TAG, "onComplete: OKAY");
        } else {
            Log.e(TAG, "onComplete: FAILED " + databaseError.getMessage());
        }
    }
});

When you hit the 3 minute mark, if the callback fires with an error, such as permission failure, you can investigate why. If it stops firing at all, that probably means you've lost connection with the Firebase server. You can monitor the connection status using a listener, as described in the documentation.