https://www.hascode.com/tags/background-task/ Recent content in Background-Task on Micha Kops' Tech Notes Hugo en Copyright © 2010 - 2025 Micha Kops. #e9d956c0c0154a221ad83c925346a8fa0e72f866 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100 https://www.hascode.com/managing-background-tasks-on-android-using-the-alarm-manager/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100 https://www.hascode.com/managing-background-tasks-on-android-using-the-alarm-manager/ <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>In today’s tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to handle periodically scheduled tasks on our Android device by using BroadcastReceivers, Services and the AlarmManager.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_prerequisites">Prerequisites</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The following environment is needed to follow this tutorial …</p> </div> <div class="ulist"> <ul> <li> <p><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html">Java Development Kit 6</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html">Android SDK</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html#AddingComponents">An AVM with at least Android 2.2 / API Version 8</a></p> </li> <li> <p>I recommend using <a href="http://eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a> with the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html">ADT Plugin</a> installed</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_the_concept">The Concept</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>We’re going to create a first broadcast receiver that gets initiated at boot time. This component then should make use of Android’s AlarmManager API and schedule a cyclic task using an explicit intent.</p> </div>