Restarted? If the system kills your app, it doesn't restart it until a) User starts it b) an Intent comes in to start it c) an Alarm goes off
It won't just get magically restarted for you. On Monday, March 19, 2012 1:02:54 PM UTC+8, Tarak wrote: > > Yes, the system kills the app at any time. But i have this condition being > handled by rescheduling the timer after being restarted. The app was killed > after 8 hours and then restarted. A timer was scheduled for the remaining > 16 hours which didn't go off. The process id was the same. > > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:10:31 PM UTC-7, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: >> >> You might want to read up on the lifecycle of an Android app and how the >> system can kill it any time for any reason. >> >> On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:58:16 AM UTC+8, Tarak wrote: >>> >>> 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
