Android Question How to avoid activity loading again by itself due to unfinished job.

[Juzer Hussain]

Hi Guys,
I am having a chat activity which checks for msgs in a timer thru a job.Whilst the job is still running and users presses back the previous activity flashes for a sec and the chat activity resumes again by itself.
Then the error comes ESIR is a directory.........
I want to stop the job as soon as the users navigates out. There should be some way for this.I cannot manage with boolean flags in this case i guess.
I am using HttpUtils2 for job.
Please guide me.
Juzer

 

[somed3v3loper]

You might want to make your job in a service
and in job_Done , you check

if IsPaused(yourActivityName)=False Then
'Add new messages with something like this
CallSubDelayed2(yourActivityName,"Add_Messages",messagedata)
End if

 

[KMatle]

Use a Service: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/service-modules.7542/#content

Seems complicated at the start but it isn't. Play a bit with it. Nice thing. And... A timer isn't reliable (if the app is finished by Android in some cases, f.e. low memory). The service will be handled by Android (like the alarm clock).

 

[Juzer Hussain]

Thanks A Lot somed3v3loper and KMatle,

I am shifting to service the repeated task let us see.

Juzer