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SJunejo
SJunejo

Reputation: 71

Alternatives to Wakelocks?

I'm working on an app which needs to send data to a webserver after every x minutes (where x is a value that can be changed through webserver responses).

Right now, I'm using a background thread that sleeps for x minutes and then notifies the main thread to start sending data.

However, I'm experiencing issues with this method due to CPU-sleeping, which seems to affect the thread sleeping time.

I've read about wakelocks and think I could implement a partial wakelock...however, one of the core features of this app is to save battery, so overall wakelocks just aren't feasible.

So I was wondering if there are any alternatives to wakelocks that can make sure that a certain piece of logic always runs in the background after every x minutes, ideally only waking up the CPU when it is needed?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1774

Answers (1)

Raiv
Raiv

Reputation: 5781

Use SheduledThreadPoolExecutor for this. It can handle single tasks, periodic tasks etc...

Upvotes: 2

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