Applications of the JobScheduler
The JobScheduler API allows us to schedule work that runs asynchronously without user intervention in the future under certain conditions. This API is also able to reduce the energy consumption by deferring the job execution until the device is charging or connected to an unmetered network, such as the Wi-Fi network.
Ideal cases include things such as application database backup that could be deferred and do not require exact time execution, a periodic upload of user data to the network, and download of configuration parameters. So, typically jobs that don't have to run immediately and which data doesn't have to be ready for user consumption. Reducing your application energy consumption without compromising the ...
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