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Thibault Gandon
Thibault Gandon

Reputation: 366

Manage intrervals for PeriodicTask

My development is based on Windows Phone 8 and 8.1. This is a homebrew app so I'm not restricted by the market place.

I need a Periodic Task with an interval shorter than 30 min. Ideally, I would like an interval of 15 min. Unfortunately, there is a constraint that don't allow a periodic task to be running in an interval shorter than 30 min.

I know that I could use ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest in order to trick the system but i was thinking if there is a better way to do this.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 22

Answers (1)

Barnstokkr
Barnstokkr

Reputation: 3129

A background agent is triggered by the system's timer tick; the system timer tick is OS driven and cannot be changed (well, I guess you can try to hack the OS)

Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8's timer tick is set to 30 minutes

Windows has a built-in timer that runs background tasks in 15-minute intervals. Note that on Windows Phone, the interval is 30 minutes.

Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT) the restriction is down to 15 minutes.

The system uses a 15-minute tick frequency for timer requests. A time-triggered background task is scheduled on the next tick after FreshnessTime elapses. If the OneShot property is false, FreshnessTime specifies the interval for a recurring task.

Upvotes: 1

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