Recurring action when a user leaves a place

Question

I want to schedule a recurring action in my Activity (I am using Activities and Places design pattern). When my user leaves a place associated with this activity, how quickly can I expect this action to stop? Will the inclusion of the recurring action somehow affect the way an Activity is disposed of?

I don't need an immediate guarantee. If an activity is disposed of normally, it's acceptable in my use case.

How do you _schedule a recurring action_? – Thomas Broyer Sep 19 '12 at 15:31 — Thomas Broyer, Sep 19 '12 at 15:31
Scheduler with scheduleFixedDelay() – Andrei Volgin Sep 19 '12 at 16:05 — Andrei Volgin, Sep 19 '12 at 16:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '12 at 16:51

It is your responsibility to cancel anything that you started in your activity, if you need/want so.

With a Scheduler.RepeatingCommand, you'd have to keep the command around and, in the activity's onStop, set a flag on it so that the next time it's run it exits early and returns false.

Recurring action when a user leaves a place

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