react-native-background-geolocation: rnmapbox user location stops working when react-native-background-geolocation is added to the project

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 4.13.2
• Platform: Android
• OS version: 10
• Device manufacturer / model: Samsung Galaxy A10
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.72.4
• Plugin config I’ve just imported the library as in this example

import React from 'react';
import MapboxGL, {Camera, MapView} from '@rnmapbox/maps';
import BackgroundGeolocation from 'react-native-background-geolocation-android';
import {Platform} from 'react-native';

MapboxGL.setWellKnownTileServer(Platform.OS === 'ios' ? 'mapbox' : 'Mapbox');
MapboxGL.setAccessToken('your token');

const mapViewStyle = {
  flex: 1,
};

const App = () => {
  const mapRef = React.useRef<MapboxGL.MapView>(null);
  return (
    <>
      <MapView style={mapViewStyle} ref={mapRef}>
        <Camera
          zoomLevel={8}
          followUserLocation={true}
          followUserMode={'normal'}
          followZoomLevel={14}
        />
        <MapboxGL.UserLocation visible={true} showsUserHeadingIndicator />
      </MapView>
    </>
  );
};

Expected Behavior

The user location should reflect the phone’s location as when react-native-background-geolocation is not added to the project.

Actual Behavior

Started the example app above on an Android phone and walked 300m after 300m the user location was still at the starting point.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start example app
2. Walk for a bit
3. Check if the user location is in your location

Context

We are working on an app where we use rnmapbox to show a map to the user with the current location and react-native-background-geolocation to track the user’s location while in the background.

Just to be clear the issue is not that react-native-background-geolocation is not reporting location updates. The problem is when react-native-background-geolocation is added to the example app, mapbox stops getting location updates.

Debug logs

2023-09-04 13:20:23.758 28564-28696/com.mymapproject E/TSLocationManager: ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════
    ║ LICENSE VALIDATION FAILURE: com.mymapproject
    ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════
    ╟─ Invalid license key: ***
    ╟─ BackgroundGeolocation is fully functional in DEBUG builds without a license.
    ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════
2023-09-04 13:20:23.960 28564-28727/com.mymapproject D/TSLocationManager: [c.t.l.logger.LoggerFacade$a a] PID: 2