Question

I have a niche application that needs to send a server its location every few seconds. (Don’t worry about a mobile phone’s battery life). How would I make a thread or something execute every few seconds? I have a gpslistener but the name of its subclass is "onlocationchanged" which seems to only want to provide information if the location changed, I will need an updated location sent to the server every time though on an interval that I define

How would I do this?

insight appreciated

Answer 1

Place this in onCreate of a service.

  mTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
           // What you want to do goes here
         }
    }, 0, REFRESH_TIME);

REFRESH_TIME is the frequency or time in milliseconds when the run repeats itself.