Oh, I see. You might not need a service or alarms then - a Handler with postAtTime() should do the trick.
Since you'll be doing networking, make you do it from a background thread, so as to not block the application's UI. Android provides a class that makes this easy: AsyncTask. -- Kostya 2011/1/17 Sergio Luceno <slucen...@gmail.com> > thanks Kostya, > > I don't know if I explained well what i wanna mean when i say sync the > app. > > What i try to have sync is the data of the application. I mean, the > user can modify his data through movile device, or accessing via web, > in the future maybe through facebook, etc. > > So i think is quite enough if the process run only while the user is > using the application. I think i don't need sync while the user is > doing whatever and my app is on memory. Or maybe yes.... i don't > know. :D > > I am gonna take a look to AlarmManager. > > On 17 ene, 12:04, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sergio, > > > > A Handler only works for as long as your process is "alive", which may > not > > be a good thing. > > > > Use AlarmManager for scheduling - it can wake the phone up (if you need > > this) and will reload the process if it was kicked out of memory. > > > > For the actual updates, take a look at IntentService (part of SDK) or > > WakefulIntentService (Mark Murphy's enhanced version, Google for it). > > > > -- Kostya > > > > 2011/1/17 Sergio Luceno <slucen...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > My application has to be syncronized every 5 minutes against a server. > > > I have to schedule a HTTP call to my server to get sync. > > > > > What is the best way to achieve that? > > > > > Now I tried to make a timer with a handler. > > > I'm passing a message every 5 minutes to execute my action. > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com><android-developers%2Bunsubs > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
