Any way to have initial delay for PeriodicWorkRequest

Question

For OneTimeWorkRequest, we can have setInitialDelay to specific the initial delay.

However, there isn\'t such facility for PeriodicWorkRe

Answer 1

Since androidx.work:work-*:2.1.0, PeriodicWorkRequests support initial delays. You can use the setInitialDelay method on PeriodicWorkRequest.Builder to set an initial delay.

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