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anju patel
anju patel

Reputation: 85

How to start service automatically at specific time every day in Android?

I have implemented service activity in my app which is i want to fetch the data in the background of application while my app is not opened infront.But right now i want to start the service at particular or specific time like today my service is start at 12pm , after that my service is start at 12am everyday, how to do this.Can someone help me.Thanks to appreciate.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1141

Answers (1)

gkee
gkee

Reputation: 771

As the comments state, AlarmManager is the class you're looking for. However it's not a great idea to start a service at an EXACT time, because if your app is popular and you have a million users, they're all going to hit your backend at exactly midday every day... Read more about the right way to do it here: https://developer.android.com/training/scheduling/alarms.html

Upvotes: 1

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