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### Why?
On iOS, if you want to download big files no matter the state of your app, wether it's in the background or terminated by the OS, you have to use a system API called `NSURLSession`.
This API handles your downloads separately from your app and only keeps it informed using delegates.
This API handles your downloads separately from your app and only keeps it informed using delegates (Read: [Downloading Files in the Background](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/url_loading_system/downloading_files_in_the_background)).
On Android we are simulating this process with a wonderful library called [Fetch2](https://github.com/tonyofrancis/Fetch)
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`react-native-background-downloader` gives you an easy API to both downloading large files and re-attaching to those downloads once your app launches again.
> **Please Note** - This library was created to better facilitate background downloading on iOS. If you're not aiming to to use the download-in-background functionality, there are better solutions like [RNFS.downloadFile()](https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs#downloadfileoptions-downloadfileoptions--jobid-number-promise-promisedownloadresult-) which will results in a more stable download experience for your app.
## ToC
- [Usage](#usage)