Hi. I need a background task to run every minute. I have no need for a user interface, although I understand that I must still declare a launcher activity, which I can just finish() once I've set up my service.
I'm confused between the use of AlarmManager, Receivers and Services. So far, I've scheduled a repeating alarm, which passes a class called AlarmReceiver in its Intent. AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver, and the onReceive() method successfully fires every minute, even if I kill the activity, which is exactly what I want. However, at no point am I using a class which extends Service or IntentService, which when I look around at other people's examples, seems to be what everyone does when they want a task to run as a background service. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be calling a Service class from my BroadcastReceiver instead of doing the work there? Many thanks for any advice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/52213af9-f4c9-4508-bbd0-3791e8fdec92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
