How to read a table every x time.

[Alexandre Pires 0]

Hi Guys, I need my Android background service to read a table from my database every 30 seconds. What would be the best way to do this? 

I am currently using an infinite loop in a thread and sleep, but I believe it is not the best approach.

@Dave Nottage Is there any kastri component that helps to do this?

 

I am using Delphi 10.3

Thanks for some help

Alexandre

[Remy Lebeau 1394]

Why not a simple timer instead of a sleeping loop?

[Alexandre Pires 0]

@Remy Lebeau do you mean ttimer component? But does ttimer work on services?

[Rollo62 536]

13 hours ago, Alexandre Pires said:

@Remy Lebeau do you mean ttimer component? But does ttimer work on services?

No, not in background.

But in background you need maybe also other measures to keep Android awake.

[Moskw@ 0]

Hello,

   do not use sleep in background services, Android can think that Your service is not working (especially in energy save mode) and try to kill. Instead of this use for example :

 

const cTimeInterval = 30000;
var aLastTime : TDateTime;
begin
  aLastTime := Now();  // use aLastTime := Now()-1; (whatever to start imiditly)
  while true do
    begin
      if (MilliSecondsBetween(Now(),aLastTime)>=cTimeInterval) then
      begin       
        aLastTime := Now();        
        // do somethink there
      end;
    end;
end;

if You need to have time interval counting after to do something move aLastTime := Now(); after work you need to make. For me works better if I create that in new Thread in service.

while true do - you can change to do somethink to brake loop if you need

 

best regards
Moskw@