Open Source • Background Tasks: Itoo 🚀

[Taifun]

Please provide a screenshot of your blocks as well as the project (aia file)

Taifun

[NavdeepSidhu]

SimpleItooProject2_1.aia (164.8 KB)

Please find attached Screenshot and .aia file.

[Taifun]

you are trying to do something (in this case send a notification) regularly every 30 minutes
this is a job for an alarmmanager
search the community for a free basic alarmmanager or use my paid alarmmanager with advanced features App Inventor Extensions: Alarm Manager | Pura Vida Apps

Taifun

[Kumaraswamy]

Did you try the instructions in Motorola | Don’t kill my app!?

Let us know if it helps.

[NavdeepSidhu]

Earlier i built a mqtt app, which was stooping after sometime. Because of that I am sending notification message every 30 minutes with timestamp to see after how long the app stops.
Yes, unrestricted battery background usage is enabled

[Kumaraswamy]

@NavdeepSidhu

Yes, unrestricted battery background usage is enabled

This should help a bit. It is a Motorola device-specific behaviour.

Keep the application open in recent menu and check if you have an option to "Lock app".

[Emissary95]

[How can we run a task at a specified time? The yellow block is not supported. I need the procedure to run at a specified time of 00:05.

[Kumaraswamy]

Hello, here are your options:

a free solution

Alarm Manager with Itoo

The aia file aims to create an alarm system based on a background system created with Itoo. Reliability is maximum and it will always notify us exactly at the hour and minute marked as the alarm. The app would manage the service, auto-starting when there are pending alarms and closing when there are no pending alarms in the database. The application uses the following components [componentes] The aia consists of two parts: 1.- The Activity part 2.- The Service Part 1. In the activity par…

a paid solution

[PAID] Alarm Manager Extension with Notification or Autostart

Description Alarm Manager Extension to send a notification or autostart the app at a given time or at boot time only once or repeated by interval (15 minutes, half hour, hour, half day, day and week, month and year). After clicking the notification your app will be started. You can define a start text, which will be passed to your app in method 'get plain start text' and trigger some action after your app is started. You also can define several alarms, just use a different id for each alarm. A…

[Emissary95]

I bought this extension a long time ago, but it doesn't solve my problem. That's why it needs a background data refresh at 12:05 AM.

[Taifun]

@Emissary95

but it doesn't solve my problem.

@Emissary95

How can we run a task at a specified time?

The following example shows the current weekday at alarm time. [PAID] ⏰ Alarm Manager Extension with Notification or Autostart - #222 by Taifun

Just call your method instead

Taifun

[Emissary95]

Please tell me if this block works in the background? For some reason, it doesn't work for me.

[Kumaraswamy]

Yes, your extension is not that complex to fail in the background. Also ask it in the Kodular Community...

[Emissary95]

Thanks for the reply. But for some reason, this block wasn't being called in the background. I've already rewritten the extension code. Now the code automatically determines next Friday, and the problem has been solved. Reconciliation is no longer necessary.