Android run thread in service every X seconds

Question

I want to create a thread in an Android service that runs every X seconds

I am currently using , but the postdelayed method seems to really lag out my app.

Answer 1

There are number of alternative ways to do this. Personally, I prefer to use ScheduledExecutorService:

ScheduledExecutorService scheduleTaskExecutor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(5);

// This schedule a runnable task every 2 minutes
scheduleTaskExecutor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
  public void run() {
    doSomethingUseful();
  }
}, 0, 2, TimeUnit.MINUTES);