How to loop a service?

Question

My service needs to check for something every minute and

while(true)
{
   Thread.sleep(60000) 
   //REST OF CODE HERE//
}

is not working. Makin

Answer 1

create a thread in your service and put while loop there like this:

 new Thread(new Runnable(){
    public void run() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    while(true)
    {
       Thread.sleep(60000) 
       //REST OF CODE HERE//
    }

                    }
}).start();