Heres a starter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1082437/android-alarmmanager but you will probably need to do a bit more research on AlarmManager.
On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:51:00 UTC+1, paladin wrote: > > It's actually sending the location of the phone every 30 seconds to the > server. Where would the alarm be located that you're talking about? > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:26:11 AM UTC-4, Dave Shortman wrote: >> >> Does the app do anything else other than ping the server? Best way to >> approach this really would be to set an alarm which fires every 30 seconds, >> when you receive the alarm take a partial wakelock and fire a service to >> perform the ping, this service should also take and release a wakelock >> whilst performing the ping. >> >> On Monday, 22 April 2013 22:00:32 UTC+1, paladin wrote: >>> >>> I have an app that is supposed to send a ping to a server every 30 >>> seconds. When the app goes to sleep, it's still supposed to do this, but >>> I've been testing and it seems to stop sending any updates after 1 hour, >>> consistently. Is this a "deep sleep"? I have seen no documentation on this. >>> Has anyone experienced this? Would anyone know how to keep it from going >>> into deep sleep? >> >> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
