Philip Peitsch

Back again... yep, let's get this landed.

@all-contributors please add @gion-andri for code

Surprisingly, the existing plugin **does** quite happily remain scanning and operational in the background. What is likely to be causing you problems however is the pause that occurs 5 minutes...

@juanaza interesting. Thanks for the extra detail there. A quick question from your workflow here, does the MAC address of the device change between connections? Or does the device ID...

Hi @juanaza Does the scan keep functioning if you start it before with the services filter before the screen is turned off? I.e., start the scan, turn the screen off,...

The other point of consideration is whether you potentially need Android's `ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION` permission given your use-case: https://developer.android.com/develop/sensors-and-location/location/background

This sounds very much like we need that `ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION` permission for the scan. For the interim, I'd suggest adding some code in the Android portion of your capacitor app to...

> I always scan for only 1500ms which is enough to get find the device I need What do you do if no device is found within that scan? Do...

I'd definitely consider it if we can prove it works.

This looks really good @omercnet I'll kick the tires on it a bit later in the week. Thanks for the patch!