Background-Resilient Upload SDK for React Native
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A plug-and-play React Native library that keeps file uploads running reliably when your app is backgrounded, minimized, or the screen is locked.
Added Nov 12, 2025
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The Problem
Mobile developers struggle with file and media uploads failing when apps lose foreground status. Current implementations break when users lock their screen, switch apps, or when uploads take longer than expected. Developers waste time building custom orchestration logic for background persistence, chunking, retry handling, and progress tracking across app state changes.
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10k files upload strategy
Hello, I have an app where users can select a folder to be uploaded and analyze the media files on our servers. We only support android. I want to know the best strategy for uploading, with expedited permission and robust. Current setup: Split files into 10MB zip files, upload in parallel (up to 5 concurrent uploads). Upload work for each zip file is scheduled with work manager API. Data is usually between 500MB to 1gb. I wrote kotlin/android module for all this orchestration and upload as I found it's most optimal for lots of File IO and not including the react native JS bridge for this speeds things up. To listen to the progress I have setup events on android side that my react native side is listening to and showing upload progress. This part seems flaky if app is closed by the user and it restarts. Now I'm adding changes to see if any work failed, to replace it with same id. Seems like lots of orchestration and tracking work, and i feel like it should be simpler Is there a better way? Should I just use one work manager task to upload all zip files in parallel?
How to keep axios requests running when app goes to background in React Native/Expo?
I'm building an app with Expo and having issues with axios requests being interrupted when: \- User locks their phone screen \- User switches to another app \- Upload takes longer than expected My use case: uploading large files (videos/images) and waiting for long-running API responses (30s - 2min). Thanks a lot.
How do you properly handle uploading a file while app is in background?
I have an app where the user selects a video and upon clicking send this is the flow in order. 1. Compress the video using react-native-compressor 2. Calls backend to to get S3 presigned URL 3. Uploads the video to S3 4. Sends a POST request to backend to save video My problem is the moment the app goes to background in any of the steps, the whole upload process fails.
How do you properly handle uploading a file while app is in background?
I have an app where the user selects a video and upon clicking send this is the flow in order. 1. Compress the video using react-native-compressor 2. Calls backend to to get S3 presigned URL 3. Uploads the video to S3 4. Sends a POST request to backend to save video My problem is the moment the app goes to background in any of the steps, the whole upload process fails.
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