Thanks Mark. Why can't timers or handlers be used ?. There is nothing in the documentation of why timers or handlers cant be used to run tasks after 24 hours. AlarmManager is more heavy weight on the OS. The documentation says that you must acquire a WAKE lock when processing the alarm, since the device can go to sleep as soon as the Intent is processed. This behavior is also not what we really want for the application. The application has a simple requirement to run a task every 24 hours.
- Tarak On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: > > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and made > use > > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . > > Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: > > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and made > use > > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . > > Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: > > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and made > use > > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . > > Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: > > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and made > use > > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . > > Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! > > -- 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
