GCM msg delivery times are WILDLY erratic

Question

I\'ve setup an Android app with GCM support, and have a little test app to send a msg to the app. When I run the App in the emulator, I can see (via logging msgs) that it re

Answer 1

This matter is important to me.

I have set up this code inside a one second timer Handler to send out a GCM message every 2 minutes. The hope is that it will keep things alive

            if ((mOneSecondTick %120) == 0){
            // q 1 minute check when we got last call....
            long lDiff = System.currentTimeMillis() - GCMlastCall;
            if (PushAndroidActivity.GCMAvailable){
                Log.d("pushAndroidActivity",String.format("(mOneSecondTick %d",lDiff));
                if (lDiff > 122 * 1000){ // more than a minute
                    Intent intent = new Intent(StayInTouch.this,PushAndroidActivity.class);
                    2startActivity(intent);
                }else{ // every 2 minutes send out a gcm message...
                    asyncWebCall(String.format(AgeingLib.GCMTICKLE,androidid),0);
                    return; // only if it sends a tickle and all is well...
                }
            }else{
                Log.d("pushAndroidActivity",String.format("(mOneSecondTick mod60 no GCM on this device"));
            }
        }

GCMlastCall is the last time a message was received, so we can tell if gcm stopped.

Been working for a couple of days now seems OK