Android Question (Solved) Starter to run a timer in the background

[edm68]

Hi, I'm trying to learn more about using the Starter to run background tasks.

As a test I made the attached program to try to learn from. It just runs a timer and prints the time to a text file every 60 seconds. It works well when the activity is active, but after it goes to the background for a while the 60 seconds gets to be more than 90 seconds. I've searched and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've also attached the text file from a test I did tonight.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Erel]

Acquire a partial lock with PhoneWakeState (Phone library). Sounds like the system slowed down the whole process.

 

[edm68]

Yes, thank you, that seems to have worked.

After adding this & running in the background for almost 1.5 hours was off by less than 5 seconds.