Hello, I wanted to ask a question regarding the Alarm Manager. I have a requirements of setting long running timers in my application. The minimum duration for my timer is 1 hour...and the maximum may be for 4-5 days. This timer is supposed to run in the background, and when it fires/expires, i have to show something on the GUI. The timer can be re-scheduled once it fires based on user action.
What is the best approach for scheduling such long running timers ? Should i make use of the Alarm Manager ? Or will it be an overkill ? As far as i know, alarms are retained even if the device goes to sleep and they wake up the device when the alarm goes off. I am thinking of using a simple Java TimerTask as an alternative to setting an alarm: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/TimerTask.html. But i am not sure what will happen to the timer task if the device went to sleep while the task was running. What is the best approach here ? Thanks in advance Best Regards Indodroid.
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