Android Question ChatGPT Tips for Background Mode

[AndreyPozdnyakov]

My project is a "Background Reminder". I use Timer to track the reminder time.
I asked ChatGPT to analyze my project. They gave me the following recommendations:

- Background logic depends on Timer
- On Android 36, the service may be stopped
- Use ForegroundService / alarms

How should I handle this?

 

[Erel]

It will not work with a timer.

For a reminder app, you don't need your app to run in the background all the time. You need to use StartReceiverAt: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/receivers-and-services-in-2023.145370/#content
Or for exact time:

Start receiver at exact time

The standard StartReceiverAt is inexact, in order to allow the OS to make optimizations. Worth reading: https://developer.android.com/training/scheduling/alarms Exact scheduling: 1. AddPermission(android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM) 2. Private ion As Object - class global 3. Private...

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