Chen Ganir wrote: > I was investigating the issue of setting up a delayed activity/event, > that will occur and trigger even if the phone is in sleep mode (wake > up, do what you need to do, go back to sleep). > > I was thinking of the following methods: > 1. sendMessageDelayed > 2. Timer > 3. AlarmManager > > The basic requirement is to be able to set a triger in the future, and > be sure that this trigger wakes up the system if it is sleeping, > perform the task, and go back to sleep.A partial wakup is required (no > screen flickering). > > Currently i'm using the sendMessageDelayed, and i keep a wake lock > held for the timeout period (bad practice).
*Please* use AlarmManager for this! Here is a sample project showing the use of AlarmManager and a WakefulIntentService (allows you to take as much time as you need to do your work and keeps the device awake just long enough to do that work): http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/SystemServices/Alarm/ -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
