Background task documentation confusing

[coffeymatt]

I'm trying to get my head around background tasks. I have a 'synchronize' button in my ionic app that pushes up various bits of data. I subscribe to the observable of those events occuring and update the UI with messages, but I want that process to continue executing even if the user suspends/backgrounds the app.

The example code mentions 'let a network request finish' in the comments, but how would you get a handle on some code that's executing outside that 'appStateChange' listener function? That task id is only scoped inside the state change listener so I can't finish it in the final block of my observable? Does that make sense? Can this example be improved?

https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/apis/background-task#api

[Jacobra93]

Any update on this? I am wanting to use Capacitor's Background API in the same way that coffeymatt is wanting to, and have not been able to find any solutions.

[SalahAdDin]

Most of the documentation is not fair enough.