Hi, Use alarms
On May 26, 8:06 pm, Charly <carlos.per...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing sort of a wireless scanner, so I need to scan every X > seconds. > > I know I should use WifiManager and startScan() to get the networks > and then register a receiver to receive the event once the scan has > finished. However I'm having problems when trying to figure out how to > scan periodically. It's more like a design problem. > > My solution so far has been to create a Service which takes care of > the scanning, besides the main Activity. I think this is correct. So > how could I tell this Service to scan every X seconds? I've thought it > may have a Thread object, call its Scan method during tart_services() > and then take it to sleep. Also I thought I could just get rid of the > Service and run the Thread from the main Activity, but then I guess it > would die whenever the Activity is not visible. None of then seem like > a really good solution to me, and I think there must be an easier way > to do this. > > Could anyone help me please? > > Thanks in advance. -- 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
