Question

I would like to create a service that it just executes a php file in server in order to retrieve a table data count/number of records.
$query = "SELECT COUNT(id_person) FROM user_details";
Normally, I’m using an AsyncTaskclass to execute a php file in server (ProgressDialog, etc…) and that’s working perfectly. However, i’d like to make that check in a Service, so that if the count has changed i trigger a notification. Any idea please of how making that ? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You can trigger a broadcast from your service, and then implement a BroadCastReceiver that does the processing.

    Intent broadcastIntent = new Intent();
    broadcastIntent.setAction(ServiceResponseReceiver.ACTION_CHANGED);
    broadcastIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
    sendBroadcast(broadcastIntent);

Then

public class ServiceResponseReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public static final String ACTION_CHANGED = "your.package.SOMETHING_CHANGED";

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        if (ACTION_CHANGED.equals(intent.getAction())) {
                          // Do processing here, trigger notification or anything
        }
    }
}