I'm developing an Android Application to a college work. In this work I want to create a background service with a timer and when I close the application, timer still running. When I open the app, I can see the time since I've started service. Well, my problem is that when I close the app, the background timer stops and not increments more.
Can you help me please? Thanks a lot
My launcher class
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private Button startButton;
private Button pauseButton;
private TextView timerValue;
Intent intent;
long timeSwapBuff = 0L;
long updatedTime = 0L;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
timerValue = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timerValue);
startButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startButton);
startButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, CounterService.class);
startService(intent);
registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, new IntentFilter(CounterService.BROADCAST_ACTION));
}
});
pauseButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.pauseButton);
pauseButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
unregisterReceiver(broadcastReceiver);
stopService(intent);
}
});
}
private BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
updateUI(intent);
}
};
private void updateUI(Intent intent) {
int time = intent.getIntExtra("time", 0);
Log.d("Hello", "Time " + time);
int mins = time / 60;
int secs = time % 60;
timerValue.setText("" + mins + ":"
+ String.format("%02d", secs));
}
}
and here, the service class
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.SystemClock;
public class CounterService extends Service {
private Intent intent;
public static final String BROADCAST_ACTION = "com.javacodegeeks.android.androidtimerexample.MainActivity";
private Handler handler = new Handler();
private long initial_time;
long timeInMilliseconds = 0L;
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
initial_time = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
intent = new Intent(BROADCAST_ACTION);
handler.removeCallbacks(sendUpdatesToUI);
handler.postDelayed(sendUpdatesToUI, 1000); // 1 second
}
private Runnable sendUpdatesToUI = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
DisplayLoggingInfo();
handler.postDelayed(this, 1000); // 1 seconds
}
};
private void DisplayLoggingInfo() {
timeInMilliseconds = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - initial_time;
int timer = (int) timeInMilliseconds / 1000;
intent.putExtra("time", timer);
sendBroadcast(intent);
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
handler.removeCallbacks(sendUpdatesToUI);
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
}
