diff --git a/types/react-native-background-timer/index.d.ts b/types/react-native-background-timer/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-native-background-timer 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/ocetnik/react-native-background-timer#readme
+// Definitions by: Tjark Smalla <https://github.com/chillkroeteTTS>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/*~ You can declare types that are available via importing the module */
+export type IntervalId = number;
+export type TimeoutId = number;
+
+/*~ You can declare properties of the module using const, let, or var */
+declare class BackgroundTimer {
+    constructor();
+
+    start(delay?: number): any;
+
+    stop(): void;
+
+    runBackgroundTimer(callback: () => void, delay: number): void;
+
+    backgroundClockMethod(callback: () => void, delay: number): void;
+
+    stopBackgroundTimer(): void;
+
+    setTimeout(callback: () => void, timeout: number): TimeoutId;
+
+    clearTimeout(timeoutId: TimeoutId): void;
+
+    setInterval(callback: () => void, timeout: number): IntervalId;
+
+    clearInterval(intervalId: IntervalId): void;
+}
+
+declare const _BackgroundTimer: BackgroundTimer;
+export default _BackgroundTimer;
diff --git a/types/react-native-background-timer/react-native-background-timer-tests.ts b/types/react-native-background-timer/react-native-background-timer-tests.ts
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+// Tests taken from Examples at https://github.com/ocetnik/react-native-background-timer
+import BackgroundTimer from 'react-native-background-timer';
+
+BackgroundTimer.runBackgroundTimer(() => {
+    // do stuff
+    },
+    3000);
+    // rest of code will be performing for iOS on background too
+    BackgroundTimer.stopBackgroundTimer();
+
+BackgroundTimer.start();
+// Do whatever you want incuding setTimeout;
+BackgroundTimer.stop();
+
+// Start a timer that runs continuous after X milliseconds
+const intervalId = BackgroundTimer.setInterval(() => {
+	// this will be executed every 200 ms
+	// even when app is the the background
+}, 200);
+
+// Cancel the timer when you are done with it
+BackgroundTimer.clearInterval(intervalId);
+
+// Start a timer that runs once after X milliseconds
+const timeoutId = BackgroundTimer.setTimeout(() => {
+	// this will be executed once after 10 seconds
+	// even when app is the the background
+}, 10000);
+
+// Cancel the timeout if necessary
+BackgroundTimer.clearTimeout(timeoutId);
diff --git a/types/react-native-background-timer/tsconfig.json b/types/react-native-background-timer/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-native-background-timer-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-native-background-timer/tslint.json b/types/react-native-background-timer/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }