Reputation: 213

What is better in Android? Timer or Alarm?

I am developing an app for android that measures some network parameters every hour. I already have the code to do the measurements, so I only need some help on how to make it do it periodically. What should I use? Timers, Alarms or something else? Do you have any easy example on how it works?

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 1

Answers (4)

CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007296

The only good answer is to use AlarmManager. Having a service that sits for an hour waiting for the hour to pass is ridiculous.

Upvotes: 2

AlfredoVR

Reputation: 4297

A service may or may not be shut down by the OS. A scheduled task may or may not start because the device might be in "deep sleep" mode. Yo should double check this, use a service and also schedule a task, if the task opens, verify with a lock or any device you want and work accordingly. That way you are almost certain that the readings will be done.

Upvotes: 0

Rich

Reputation: 36836

Using a service (so that you're not tied to an activity) you can use Handler.postAtTime to schedule a task in the future

Handler.postAtTime

Upvotes: 1

DKIT

Reputation: 3481

Both should work. How about a service that runs in the background?

Upvotes: 0

What is better in Android? Timer or Alarm?

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