[android help] How do I get an Android service to broadcast an intent every few seconds?

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If I've created a service, how do I get it to broadcast an intent every X seconds? I remember seeing a snippet of code along the lines startThreadDelayed( new Thread() { public void run() { doStuff(); sendBroadcast(messageIntent); startThreadDelayed(this, 1000); } }, 1000); Unfortunatelly I'm not sure of either the class name, or the exact method name, for whatever is looping. Just a name would point me in the right direction of searching. asked 20 mins ago

you can use Handler.postDelayed. Here is the documentation. For Example Handler h = new Handler(); YourClass yourRunnable = new YourClass(); h.postDelayed(youRunnable,1000); public class YourClass implements Runnable{ public void run(){ doStuff(); sendBroadcast(messageIntent); if(running) h.postDelayed(youRunnable,1000); } here running is a flag better keep it as volatile boolean. So that by changing it's value you can stop the repeatition. answered 18 mins ago

You may consider using AlarmManager. By using it you can trigger any Intent one-time or recurring with any schedule. For example: Intent i = new Intent(this, YourReceiver.class); PendingIntent broadcast = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, i, 0); long first = System.currentTimeInMillis(); // now long interval = 5 * 1000; // every 5 seconds AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, first, interval, broadcast); answered 2 mins ago

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