Asynchronous Android Programming - Second Edition

Scheduling a job

With the criteria already defined and the JobInfo object, we have all the entities required to set up the job for our application. So now let's show you how to create a job with a real example.

Our example will synchronize the user account information stored in a device file with an HTTP web service over a job scheduled using the Scheduler API. The user interface will provide us a UI where we can update the user information, a button to save the information on an internal file, and a button to set up the synchronization job that will upload the account information to the web service.

First, let's start by defining our job pre-requisites and parameters:

• Our job should only run when the device is charging to save the battery
• Our job ...