On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Christoph Studer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Would it make sense to create a central scheduler for services that > need to run periodically? > > There are a lot of application that want to run at periodic intervals, > require network access and need to keep the device awake during their > work. Instead of each app having to use an AlarmManager, a WakeLock > and its own network availability checking / auto-retry, wouldn't it > make sense to provide an API that would do that work? > I think this is a great idea and something that could be of great value, but all I want is something much simpler. I think that a flag to AlarmManager.setRepeating specifying that the alarm can be adjusted in order to synchronize multiple background tasks would be entirely sufficient. Alternatively, a note that background tasks should adjust their alarms to fire on the minute (or on five minute boundaries) would serve a similar purpose. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
