Android Long-service Create Bg Thread And I Don't Know That Is Going On

Basically i am developing a rss feed for android, and i want to have a updater service that, for each source, get the feeds in specific time. Imagine: Source1 - 5minutes Source2 -

Solution 1:

You should really not be doing it that way, ie having a thread that never dies. I strongly suggest you have a look at alarms : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html

A good way to go would be :

• set a repeating alarm, maybe one with a different pendingIntent for each client, although in your case its seems to be a little too frequent to do that each 5-10 minutes only to read some RSS.
• implement a broadcast receiver that listens to the pending intents set by your alarm.
• from the broadcast receiver, start a service that starts a worker thread to read from the network and save to DB.