scheduling alarm for every second in android 5.1

Question

I want to run alarm service for every second in my application.It is working fine below 5.1 version. but it is not triggering in 5.1 devices. I am using commonsware wa

Answer 1

This is normal behavior in Android Lollipop.

Suspiciously short interval 1000 millis; expanding to 60 seconds

Tells you that the system does not like those short time intervals anymore.

Issue #161244 documented that:

This is working as intended, though is at present inadequately documented (and we're aware of that side of the problem).

Speaking very generally: short-period and near-future alarms are startlingly costly in battery; apps that require short-period or near-future work should use other mechanisms to schedule their activity.

So don't use an AlarmService for this. Prefer a thread or Executors or TimerTask or something else:

// Using Handler
new Handler().postDelayed(runnable, TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(1));

// Using Executors
Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor().schedule(runnable, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);