Android Question How to service connect to server and check whether there are any new messages?

[asales]

In post:
http://www.basic4ppc.com/android/fo...-service-long-running-background-tasks.27065/
Erel says:
"... The service can connect to your server and check whether there are any new messages for example ..."

How I can do this?
What I need to do to my app check if exists a new message in a server, every week, and show a notification?
Thanks.

 

[Erel]

Which type of server are you running?

You can call StartServiceAt in Service_Start to schedule your service to run in 24 hours from now each time.

 

[asales]

Which type of server are you running?

You can call StartServiceAt in Service_Start to schedule your service to run in 24 hours from now each time.

My intention is put a xml file in a site. The app checks if (xml) is up to date and show a notification (once at week).
How I can do this?
Any tip is appreciated.

 

[Erel]

I'm not sure which step is blocking you. You need to schedule the service to run with StartServiceAt. Download the file with HttpUtils2 and parse it with one of the xml parsers.