Question

I got 2 classes: A(Activity subclass) which generates the phone location infinitely and class B (thread subclass) which takes the location from A and send it to the db.
Since it’s an activity it’s stop generating the locations once I close my application so I guess service would make the job.

I read about services in here(http://developer.android.com)

but I couldn’t understand which service should I use and how?
The change that I’m planning to do is to turn A into a service and create class C(activity) which start & stop A.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use Timer for this..

private void startservice() {

timer.scheduleAtFixedRate( new TimerTask() {

public void run() {

//Do whatever you want to do every “INTERVAL”

}

}, 0, INTERVAL);

; }

Execute or call a method at a certain time.

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