Does android support real time events? If so how could they be implemented?

Question

I\'m using Android Studio to develop and application and I\'d like that when a certain moment of time is met the application performs some defined action.

I know I could

Answer 1

Yes take a look at AlarmManager it will let you do an action in a specific time

Answer 2

If you need to check some external databases once every X seconds/minutes, then you may consider using a Handler & Runnable with postDelayed() method to achieve what you need.