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This is more of an open discussion than a solution. According to this thread StartServiceAt uses... as they please. I have looked at the 2 android phones I use to run apps that use StartServiceAt in...
link: I'm sorry to say but this discussion is not fruitful. As I wrote, the correct way to keep your a...
link: Testing with a foreground service is irrelevant. Does this mean I should test in background mode o...
link: Testing with a foreground service is irrelevant. 1. You need to test with Android 10 or 11. 2. You ...

Do we still need this code in B4A 8.00+: Sub SetExactAndAllowWhileIdle (Time As Long, ServiceName As String) Dim p As Phone If p.SdkVersion < 23 Then StartServiceAtExact(ServiceName...
link: Do we still need this code in B4A 8.00+: No. or StartServiceAtExact(ServiceName, Time, True) will do the job on all SDK versions? Yes....

Hi, I have a couple of B4A v10.7 apps that use services with StartServiceAt to periodically check for certain changes in AWS S3 files. They work pretty reliably on my Samsung S5 and I have a SMS...
link: -startserviceat-in-a-loop.130989/...
link: is the annoyance of the odd failure of the StartServiceAt mechanism - which the SMS alert mechanism provides...
link: Take a look here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/background-location-tracking.99873/ I ...

https://www.b4x.com/basic4android/images/SS-2018-11-29_15.48.38.png Simple example of a foreground service that keeps the process running in the background. The current location is shown in the persistent notification. The app starts at boot and theoretically should run all the time. It also schedules itself to run with StartServiceAt. This can help in cases where the OS kills the process. Relevant example, based on this example, which plays music in the background: https://www.b4x.com...

If you google &quot;startserviceat" including the quotes so that you don't get a pile of garbage hits - it seems to indicate that there is no such thing as an Android startserviceat. I'd be interested to know how it was implemented in B4A. Thanks......
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link: If you google &quot;startserviceat" including the quotes so that you don't get a pile...

I am going to be using StartServiceAt() to run a service at dawn then again at dusk. There is a web... to use these times with StartServiceAt(). Do I need to convert the text strings to local time...
link: Another option: Sub ParseUTCTime (time As String) As Long Dim m As Matcher = Regex.Matcher(&quo...
link: StartServiceAt call. I'm hoping this should start the service at 6:13 AM my time so I can turn off my...
link: Tip: ticks = number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 00:00 UTC The best way is to parse the time stri...

I start a StartServiceAt() with a period of 60 minutes. Expecially during the night, the running App is killed and the Service is never started. I was thinking that StartServiceAt() was enough to keep the App running. Have I to keep some service foreground to succede in this job? Thank you for...
link: Try StartServiceAtExact and make sure that DuringSleep is set to true. Not all devices will let you run in the background. Hi Erel...
link: Try StartServiceAtExact and make sure that DuringSleep is set to true. Not all devices will let you run in the background....

I'm scheduling a short lived service to run every 4 hours If I exit the app, even with ExitApplication, at the next scheduled period, the service starts anyway. Is there a way to cancel a StartServiceAt() that was already issued without scheduling another one? I think I can set the next start time at about 100 years in the future, but it doesn't seem to be an elegant solution....
link: Just run the below line before exiting your app: CancelScheduledService(servicenametocancel)...

Ok I'm going nuts here :) I've tried a couple of solutions for starting a service every day at the same time, but I keep running into loops! Can somebody _please_ post the complete code for a service that i.e. runs every day at 17:00 hours and writes something to the log? I'm absolutely sure I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what and I need an example of how i...

be scheduled to run again, and then later do a StartServiceAt() in a sub that is NOT the Service_Start sub - in fact, the StartServiceAt call might be in a different service all together. So, is there some reason a StartServiceAt should be in the Start_Activity - for example would it increase...
link: There is no such thing "Start_Activity". You can put StartServiceAt anywhere you like....
link: If there is a trigger f.e. an event that will be triggered and call the StartServiceAt I suppose...