Getting Updates From Parse.com

I am trying top use parse.com for an app but I need the information in the phone to update when something changes in the server. is there a way to do continuous checks or for the s

Solution 1:

IFAIK, you can implement it by using ScheduledExecutorService.

By using ScheduledExecutorService, you can get update from server every X second(s).

Here is an example,

ScheduledExecutorService scheduleTaskExecutor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(5);

scheduleTaskExecutor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
  publicvoidrun() {
    //Codes that check update from server
  }
}, 0, 1, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

This will check update from server every 1 minute.

To stop checking update,

scheduleTaskExecutor.shutdown();

Hope this helps :)

Solution 2:

Another possible solution could be to use push notifications to notify the app that there has been a change on the server, and trigger a pull to update everything in the app. It really depends a lot on what kind of data you are dealing with, how often it is going to update, and how quickly the user need to know that there has been a change.