yes use alarm manager to start your service and once work is done , self stop the service
On Jan 4, 12:43 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > Alarm manager is the best option. > > On Jan 4, 9:33 am, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > My requirement: > > > Need some piece of code executing every 5 minutes (no UI). This code > > needs to access server thru internet and get some data and use them on > > the device. This code is not heavy weight. Just light weight fetch of > > 5K to 10K. And the data is not always fetched. Data fetch from server > > happens only once a day or so. > > > I thought about a service and have written one with a timer and a > > thread (does the server data fetch). But I read some articles and docs > > that a service might be *killed* by the OS in low memory or idle > > situations. > > > Question: > > > Whats the suggested method to achieve this goal in android? I would > > like the code to run even in low memory situations or at least be run > > after the memory situation gets better in the OS (OS can kill my code/ > > app and restart the code when its better; but don't wanna wait for > > hours). > > > Thank you for the help! > > Jacob. > > -- 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
