Flutter send local notification by API in background - flutter

Question

I have an API that I'm checking, and when the response changes I need to send a notification to the user. I would like to know how to do this without FCM Push Notifications.
I'm using flutter-local-notifications and background fetch (https://github.com/transistorsoft/flutter_background_fetch) to do it. On the background fetch docs it says that background fetch will do your function once every 15 minutes, which is good enough for me.
This is my initPlatformState():
Future<void> initPlatformState() async {
// Load persisted fetch events from SharedPreferences
SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
String json = prefs.getString(EVENTS_KEY);
if (json != null) {
setState(() {
_events = jsonDecode(json).cast<String>();
});
}
// Configure BackgroundFetch.
BackgroundFetch.configure(
BackgroundFetchConfig(
minimumFetchInterval: 15,
stopOnTerminate: false,
enableHeadless: true,
forceReload: true,
startOnBoot: true,
),
_onBackgroundFetch)
.then((int status) {
print('[BackgroundFetch] SUCCESS: $status');
setState(() {
_status = status;
});
}).catchError((e) {
print('[BackgroundFetch] ERROR: $e');
setState(() {
_status = e;
});
});
// Optionally query the current BackgroundFetch status.
int status = await BackgroundFetch.status;
setState(() {
_status = status;
});
// If the widget was removed from the tree while the asynchronous platform
// message was in flight, we want to discard the reply rather than calling
// setState to update our non-existent appearance.
if (!mounted) return;
}
I'm assuming that what's in the function that gets called in the fetch isn't needed for the question.
I tried this on my phone and simulator, and I used Xcode -> Simulate Background Fetch and it ran properly. It also ran properly when I opened the app. Unfortunately, it didn't run after 15 minutes. Is there something I'm missing?
How would I change my code to make the background fetch to happen every 15 minutes?

Answer 1

Yes, I spent lot of time trying to solve this but was not successful so I switched, I guessed what you are trying to do is to handle your own notification without Firebase or from an API like me, well this is it, after my search I was able to do this with the help of work manager package. So easy to use and implement, try it.
https://pub.dev/packages/workmanager