Android Programming Tutorials

Now, Your Friends Are Alarmed

Extra Credit................................................................................................

Here are some things you can try beyond those step-by-step instructions:

• Offer a user preference whereby PostMonitor will start collecting
  timeline updates on boot and will buffer some number of updates,

so when Patchy connects, updates are available immediately and

fewer are missed in between Patchy runs. This will require the initial

alarm to be set from the on-boot receiver, rather than from the

service's onCreate().

• Extend the above extra credit component by offering a user

preference to have PostMonitor raise a Notification if certain sorts of

status updates are received while Patchy itself is not running.

Further Reading........................................................................................

You can learn more about the AlarmManager and the WakefulIntentService in

the "Using System Services" chapter of The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced

Android Development.

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