Yes, the system kills the app at any time. But i have this condition being handled by rescheduling the timer after being restarted. The app was killed after 8 hours and then restarted. A timer was scheduled for the remaining 16 hours which didn't go off. The process id was the same.
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:10:31 PM UTC-7, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: > > You might want to read up on the lifecycle of an Android app and how the > system can kill it any time for any reason. > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:58:16 AM UTC+8, Tarak wrote: >> >> Thanks Mark. Why can't timers or handlers be used ?. There is nothing in >> the documentation of why timers or handlers cant be used to run tasks >> after 24 hours. >> AlarmManager is more heavy weight on the OS. The documentation says >> that you must acquire a WAKE lock when processing the alarm, since the >> device can go to sleep as soon as the Intent is processed. This behavior >> is also not what we really want for the application. The application has a >> simple requirement to run a task every 24 hours. >> >> - Tarak >> >> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: >>> > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and >>> made use >>> > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . >>> >>> Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >>> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>> >>> _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! >>> >>> >> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: >>> > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and >>> made use >>> > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . >>> >>> Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >>> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>> >>> _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! >>> >>> >> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: >>> > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and >>> made use >>> > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . >>> >>> Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >>> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>> >>> _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! >>> >>> >> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:27:16 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tarak <tsri...@ipass.com> wrote: >>> > I have a requirement to run a task periodically after 24 hours and >>> made use >>> > of postDelayed (Runnable r, long delayMillis) . >>> >>> Do not do that. Use AlarmManager for periodic tasks like this. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >>> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>> >>> _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.1 Available! >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
