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Ahmet ATAK
Ahmet ATAK

Reputation: 342

Timer in android intent service

i have a class to get notification from my server I don't use firebase cloud messaging so I am getting data with the intentservice class. However I want to check the notification in per 60 seconds but timer is not work in 

protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {

it starts normally when I start the app but after that it doesn't check in time.

is there any way to check the notification every 60 seconds at the background ?

note: i don't use GCM firebase and I will never use it

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1853

Answers (2)

Mercato
Mercato

Reputation: 569

IntentService starts the service when you send it an intent, runs whatever you define for that intent, then ends the service. If you are intending for the timer to be run then perhaps do it outside of the service. Perhaps you could use a Handler and post a delayed runnable firing the intent, although I must strongly advise against this in the long term since doing 60 second checks using the phone's radio will drain its battery fast. GCM's Firebase is meant to handle that issue since it "batches" the network requests, and if you don't want to do that then perhaps use a JobScheduler. Android manages the phone's radio pretty nicely and efficiently so unless 60 seconds is absolutely necessary, then it's not really advisable to do this; users could complain of battery drain.

On that handler thing:

private static Handler handler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper);

In your activity, then

private Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try{
            //Start your intent service here.
        } finally {
            handler.postDelayed(runnable, 60000);
        }
    }
};

The try finally block is if your process somehow may trigger an error. If not necessary then you can remove it.

Then in your Activity's onCreate() or wherever you need to start the repeated trigger:

runnable.run();

Upvotes: 1

Akshay Chavda
Akshay Chavda

Reputation: 65

You can use Alarm manager 

    Intent alarmIntent = new Intent(context, MyService.class);

   PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, alarmIntent, 0);
   AlarmManager manager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

    manager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, 60000, 60000, pendingIntent);

Upvotes: 1

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