android-service

I am trying to start an alarm service that repeats every day at a particular time. I have gone through a lot of threads on stack overflow regarding this but no luck. I followed a few tutorials: http://karanbalkar.com/2013/07/tutorial-41-using-alarmmanager-and-broadcastreceiver-in-android/ and http://javatechig.com/android/repeat-alarm-example-in-android My service is never started and I do not understand why. Below is my code: My Manifest file: <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="17" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> <uses

I used RoboSpice library to do asynchronous tasks. From their examples, the spice service is declared in BaseActivity, it starts in activity's onStart method, and stops in activity's onStop. Everything is fine, but when I want download file from internet, and then I change to another activity, this download task is cancelled, because the spice service is stopped. It looks like: public abstract class BaseActivity{ /** The request manager. */ private SpiceManager requestManager = new SpiceManager(RequestService.class); @Override protected void onStart() { requestManager.start(this); super

I'm currently working on implementing a Service that when requested will perform some work on several parallel threads. My implementation is based on the ThreadPoolExecutor class along with a LinkedBlockingQueue . As a ground rule, once all tasks are finished and the are no pending tasks in the queue, I would like to stop the service (though the service can later on be started again and follow the same logic). I have been able to reach the desired outcome using the code below, yet I'm not sure if this approach is correct. public class TestService extends Service { // Sets the initial

package com.sample.downloadImage; import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import org.apache.http.util.ByteArrayBuffer; import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.ImageView; public class downloadImage extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); Bitmap