I need to have a job for my app that runs every day to check if a URL is returning correct data. If you do not return, you should get an email to let me know. Does anyone have any idea how this is done?
I know I can check if the URL works for JUnit, but my problem is to schedule this run every day on Android.
To schedule tasks that will run repeatedly in the future, you can use the Alarms engine in> of Android.
Depending on your use case the parameters and alarm type may change, but is something like:
private AlarmManager alarmMgr;
private PendingIntent alarmIntent;
...
alarmMgr = (AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
// Intent para invocar uma classe no horário agendado
Intent intent = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class);
alarmIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, 0);
// Cria um calendário e muda sua hora para 14:00
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 14);
// setInexactRepeating() requer um dos intervalos definidos nas constantes do AlarmManager
// Neste exemplo o intervalo é AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY (um dia)
alarmMgr.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, alarmIntent);
In this example an alarm was created for 14h of the current day, with an inaccurate daily repetition.