Android Question B4A - Background Service + Timer

[Ross Woodward]

Hi,

Hope you can help me.
I'm looking at the "Service Module" and "Timers".

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, so i'm hoping you can help.

The Goal;
- Have background service that will check every 2 mins
- It will check against internal DB and if has match, it will post it to the web service.
- if not, it will check again in 2 minutes.

So i created the service module as explained in the tutorial, and tried to create single timer, however I can't see if it's working as - log, toastmsg or notification won't display.

So i have scrapped the code and started with simple timer.
Please see my code:

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
    
    Dim StartTimer As Timer
    Dim x As Int = 0
    Dim Notification1 As Notification
End Sub

Sub Service_Create
    
    StartTimer.Initialize("HttpCall", 1000) '900000 = 1000*60*15(the 15 = 15 minutes)
    Notification1.Initialize
    Notification1.Icon ="icon"
    Notification1.Vibrate =True
End Sub

Sub Service_Start (StartingIntent As Intent)
    
    StartTimer.Enabled = True
    Notification1.SetInfo("Starting to count", "Testing",Main)
    Service.StartForeground(1, Notification1)
End Sub

Sub HttpCall_Tick
    
    ToastMessageShow(x, True)
    
    x = x  + 1
    
    If x = 60 Then
        StartTimer.Enabled = False
        Notification1.SetInfo("Stopped Counting", "done", Main)
        Service.StopForeground(1)
        ToastMessageShow("Done", True)   
    End If
End Sub

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ross Woodward]

Found it! -

I didn't start the background service. =

In the main activity on the "Activity Create" =

StartService(ServiceName)

Thanks