[Geolocation] Background low-power / significant location change Geolocation updates

[timfpark]

An application we are building has a need for Foursquare style persistent low power / low accuracy location updates.

In our all native app, we are using CLLocation::startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges to do this.

I'd like to propose that we add this to Geolocation:

1. Add a "background" option that translates to asking for requestAlwaysAuthorization on iOS.

then either:

1. Redefine the "enableHighAccuracy" option to use startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges instead of startUpdates when this is false. This seems to be the intent of what the W3C spec was looking for here in terms of providing a bool for this.

-or-

1. Add a "networkBasedUpdates" boolean option that when true uses startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges on iOS and LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER on Android.

I think I understand the code well enough to provide a PR for this. Let me know your thoughts.

[timdoes]

+1 for this feature

[rt2zz]

Redefining enableHighAccuracy makes sense, and then potentially exposing seperately an accuracy option.

Because we are following the html geolocation api, this seems to be about the best mapping possible. If someone needs a more ios specific solution, I imagine that could live as a seperate module.

I implemented specifically the background(mode) option in #1506

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[brentvatne]

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[NoWay1201]

+1
I need a background geolocation feature too, but I want avoid writing any Java code. Some progress on that?