How can I execute something just once per application start?

Question

I\'d like to implement an update checker in an application, and I obviously only need this to show up once when you start the application. If I do the call in the onCr

Answer 1

Use SharedPreference for this-

1. If you are not restarting your launcher activity again once your app is active then in that case you case use it.

2. Use this in a Splash screen if you are implementing it in the app.

3. If you are not using any splash screen then you need to create a activity with no view set and on it's oncreate call you can do start updation and start your main activity.

you can use counter value or boolean for this.

Here is SharedPreference doc:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.html