timertask

I am a newbie in android. I am developing an app in which a particular piece of code executes after every 5 seconds in background.To achieve this I am using a service with timer with a timer task in it. For sometime its working fine but after some indefinite my service is running but timer task stops automatically in android. Here is my code please help. Thanks in advance. public void onStart(Intent intent, int startid) { //this is the code for my onStart in service class int delay = 1000; // delay for 1 sec. final int period = 5000; // repeat 5 sec. timer = new Timer(); timer.schedule(new

There are n object which perform some actions. After performing an action a timestamp will be updated. Now I want to implement a timeout-thread which verifies if a timestamp is older than for example 60 seconds. My first solution was to do that with a thread (while-loop + sleep) which is holding a list with all objects including the last timestamp. Now I have the problem that there is a worst-case scenario where the thread needs 59 seconds plus sleep time to decide for a timeout. I’m searching for a solution like a Timer where it is possible to update the delay time. Any ideas? I think using a

I am writing an app for Android that grabs meta data from SHOUTcast mp3 streams. I am using a pretty nifty class I found online that I slightly modified, but I am still having 2 problems. 1) I have to continuously ping the server to update the metadata using a TimerTask. I am not fond of this approach but it was all I could think of. 2) There is a metric tonne of garbage collection while my app is running. Removing the TimerTask got rid of the garbage collection issue so I am not sure if I am just doing it wrong or if this is normal. Here is the class I am using: public class IcyStreamMeta {

I would like to clarify something about TimerTask. When you have the code below: timer.schedule(task, 60000); where the task is scheduled to run in the next 1 minute, is the task object already executing? because somewhere in my code I called task.cancel() but it seems that the call doesn't prevent task to be executed. I even logged the return value from the call and it returns false. I came about my question when I read the documentation for the cancel method: Cancels the TimerTask and removes it from the Timer's queue. Generally, it returns false if the call did not prevent a TimerTask from