Inconsistent Handler behavior.

Question

I am using a handler inside my service to display notifications at a certain time using the Handler.postDelayed method. My application runs fine on the emulator just as expected satisfying all cases. But when I installed the same on my HTC Wildfire, it simply doesn't happen as anticipated. Notifications are displayed at a random manner after the scheduled time and some notifications even fail. I'm monitoring my service from the Applications > Running Services and still my service is active. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I found this from the Handler documentation

if the looper is quit before the delivery time of the message occurs then the message will be dropped.then the message will be dropped.

So, instead of using a Handler with a Runnable, I used a Timer with a TimerTask.