Creating an AsyncTask to use with an AlarmManager

Question

Since I just want to connect to a web service, in order to check whether there is an update or not, or to check whether there is a need to send data to that service, I believe AsyncTask and AlarmManager is perfect for this, but I don't know what to do about the Internet connection availability of the user.

Basicly, I think after reaching the time interval I'll constantly check for an internet connection, if available connect to that web service, and after the connections restart the AlarmManager for the next time. What I am missing is the constantly checking internet availability, and using AlarmManager properly for this. Any advice would be great for me...

Answer 1

you can check for internet availability by creating a separate thread with infinite loop..you can implement this thread in service...

for alarm manager refer this doc:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html