Android Question SetExactAndAllowWhileIdle restarting 1 minute late

[rleiman]

Hi Everyone,

I'm calling SetExactAndAllowWhileIdle with a long number representing a time such as 9:00:00 but my service restarts half of the times at 9:01 and the other half it's right on the mark.

Is anyone else having this happen. If so, please let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks.

 

[Erel]

Assuming that you are setting the time correctly then there is nothing else that you can do except of waking your app 30 seconds earlier.

 

[rleiman]

Hi Erel,

Thanks. Yes, the time is set correctly so I think I will set the rescheduling 30 seconds earlier and set a timer to check for the correct time to run the rest of the code in the service.

 

[Erel]

It is a good idea to make the service a foreground service after it started. Otherwise the OS might kill it after a few seconds.

 

[rleiman]

Hi Erel,

It's in now. Thanks so much.