For the More Curious: Sync Adapters
Yet another way to set up a regularly polling web service is to use a sync adapter. Sync adapters are not adapters like you have seen before. Instead, their sole purpose is to sync data with a data source (uploading, downloading, or both). Unlike JobScheduler, sync adapters have been around for a while, so you do not have to worry about which version of Android you are running on.
Like JobScheduler, sync adapters can be used as a replacement for the AlarmManager setup that you had in PhotoGallery. Syncs from multiple applications are grouped together by default, without you having to set flags a certain way. Furthermore, you do not have to worry about resetting the sync alarm across reboots because ...
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