Home/ Questions/Q 7582675
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-30T18:29:36+00:00

In my Android application, I want to run some form of a background process,

  • 0

In my Android application, I want to run some form of a background process, which checks a few conditions every 10 minutes. If a condition is satisfied, I want to show an AlertDialog box or some form of notification to the user.

How can I do this? Can anyone provide some source code as a reference point?

I have tried running a new Thread in the Activity onCreate() method, but wasn’t able to get too far with that.

Thanks!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I would use a IntentService with AlarmManager, to call it every X minutes.

    The reasons I would suggest that, and not using a background thread that sleeps for 10 minutes each time, are two:

    1. You are wasting resources.
    2. The android platform already supply you with great services, why not using them?
    • 0