Android background service, best way to schedule task every 10 seconds if device is awake

Asked Sep 11 '18 at 04:36

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Background

I am writing an Android Service that

I am able to make the service start on device boot. But I am confused about task scheduling.

Creteria: I want to schedule the task such that it:

I found there are many ways to schedule tasks: Thread, AsyncTask, Runnable with Handler , AlarmManager, Timer, JobScheduler.

I don't know which one to pick. (AFAIK period of AlarmManager is limited to at least 60s in modern Android version)

2 Questions:

Which method should I use?
Should I schedule to run the service and the service perform the task once? Or should I have the service scheduling the task?

I am totally new to android development. Thank you.

edited Sep 11 '18 at 10:20

asked Sep 11 '18 at 04:36

somebody4

what is the task that you want to schedule every 10 seconds ? there might be a better way – Manohar Sep 11 '18 at 04:39
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@Redman Thanks. I want to query the light sensor to customize the screen brightness. – somebody4 Sep 11 '18 at 04:47
https://developer.android.com/training/scheduling/alarms – pellucide Sep 11 '18 at 04:57
read this... https://medium.com/@saquib3705/schedule-task-with-workmanager-an-android-jetpack-library-fb1b7798dfc8 – Mohd Saquib Sep 11 '18 at 07:16
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@MohdSaquib, Thanks. But WorkManager has a minimum period limit of 15 minutes. – somebody4 Sep 11 '18 at 10:19
@pellucide, Thanks. But alarm manager has a minimum period limit of 1 minutes. – somebody4 Sep 11 '18 at 10:20

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