Unable to start the timer in a service in android

Question

I dont know whats wrong going on... I am not able to start a timer in my service. Following the code

public class BkgService extends Service{

private Timer Ser         


        

Answer 1

From the Javadoc for Timer.cancel():

Once a timer has been terminated, its execution thread terminates gracefully, and no more tasks may be scheduled on it.

From the Javadoc for Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate():

Throws: IllegalStateException - if task was already scheduled or cancelled, timer was cancelled, or timer thread terminated.

The Timer is cancelled immediately: you need to create a new instance:

private void StartServUpdateTask() {

    if(ServUpdTimer != null)
    {
        ServUpdTimer.cancel();
    }
    ServUpdTimer = new Timer();

    ...
}