Question

I want to run a specific method doThis() (which is not a CPU intensive action, it’s just a POST to a web server) every 10 minutes and when that method is finished executing, to notify the user (via Toast or Notification or something of the sort). But I don’t want to block up the UI thread because I expect the user to still be interacting with the UI. What is the most efficient way to do this? Through a Handler? Or a Service or some sort (i.e. IntentService)?

Answer 1

The most clean and efficient way IMO is to use ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor, check out my answer here for the code example, hope this help.