Doing Periodic Work: Another Android Headache

Special Note

Mark Murphy will be presenting his talk remotely for us (you still have to come).

"Doing Periodic Work: Another Android Headache" by Mark Murphy

All you want to do is arrange to get control every so often in your app to do a bit of work for your user. It's 2016. That can't possibly be hard to implement, right?

Wrong. Because batteries. And Google. Though, mostly batteries.

In this presentation, we will examine the common options for doing periodic work in an Android app, such as AlarmManager and JobScheduler. We will see the pros and cons of these techniques, particularly in light of Android 6.0's "Doze mode" and "app standby" features -- along with earlier similar capabilities from device manufacturers -- to see how best to implement periodic work in your app.

(and, yes, there will be code)

About Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development (https://commonsware.com/Android). He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/115145/commonsware) to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source (http://github.com/commonsguy).

A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on a myriad of platforms. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

About the Droids

Each 3rd Wednesday of the month, we meet at IBM in the DTC or at POSSIBLE Mobile downtown (quarterly). From 5:30-6pm we will socialize and enjoy food and drinks. At 6pm we will typically have a speaker giving a presentation about an interesting and informative Android development topic. If you are a new or experienced Android developer, or just someone that is curious about Android development, we hope you will join us and become a regular participant!