Service that runs every minute

Question

I have a service that I am wanting to execute a task every minute in the background. It does not need to execute the task whenever the phone is asleep, only when the user is

Answer 1

Do it like this

    private void ping() {
    try {
        //Your code here or call a method
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Error", "In onStartCommand");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
      scheduleNext();
    }

    private void scheduleNext() {
      mHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() { ping(); }
      }, 60000);
    }

    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int x, int y) {
      mHandler = new android.os.Handler();
      ping();
      return START_STICKY;
    }