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Luke Villanueva
Luke Villanueva

Reputation: 2070

Timertask stopping when screen locks

I'm using timer task to send updates on my API. The problem is, when the device is inactive, I don't really know the exact state. The timertask stops. Then when I unlock the screen and navigate again, the task started again.

Here's how I do it:

myTimer = new Timer();
UpdateCurrentLocation updateCurrentLocation= new UpdateCurrentLocation();
myTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(updateCurrentLocation, 0, 900000);

This is updating every 15 minutes. But the activity stops when the device is disabled. I want updateCurrenLocation to be executed every 15 minutes even on background or the device is locked or even the app is not on the front.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 447

Answers (1)

Ovidiu Latcu
Ovidiu Latcu

Reputation: 72331

You did not described what you are trying to achieve, but most likely you will have to create a Service or an IntentService, and make use of AlarmManager to schedule the Service to be executed at every 15 minutes.

public static void scheduleSyncAlarm(Context context){
    AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

    Intent syncData = new Intent(context, SyncDataService.class);

    PendingIntent pendingSyncData = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, syncData,
            PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

    long syncInterval=AlarmManager.INTERVAL_HOUR/4;

    alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, 0,
            syncInterval, pendingSyncData);

}

Upvotes: 1

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