I am trying to make an Android app which takes the location data in certain intervals e.g:- 5 sec, 1 min,etc. Here is my code :-
public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(loc!=null)
{
//Required Interval
tInterval =(minInterval*60*1000) + (secInterval)*1000 - 1000;
//The app also supports interval mode
RadioButton sel = (RadioButton) findViewById(mode.getCheckedRadioButtonId());
//Code for Manual Functionality
if(sel.getText().equals(MANUAL_RADIO))
{
Time t = new Time();
t.setToNow();
db.addLocationAtTime(loc, t);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Location Added to Database",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
locate.removeUpdates(this);
b.setText(MANUAL_BUTTON);
d.setEnabled(true);
}
//Code for Interval functionality
else if(sel.getText().equals(INTERVAL_RADIO))
{
//count is object of Countdown class which is a Thread object
if(count == null)
{
//t is a Time object
t.setToNow();
//SQLiteDatabase object for logging Location with Time
db.addLocationAtTime(loc, t);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Location Added to Database",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
count = new CountDown( tInterval);
count.start();
}
else if(count.getState().toString().equals("TERMINATED"))
{
t.setToNow();
db.addLocationAtTime(loc, t);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Location Added to Database",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
count = new CountDown(tInterval);
count.start();
}
}
}
}
Here is the code for the Countdown class:- This class is used to add the interval to the app
public class CountDown extends Thread
{
long time;
public CountDown(long duration)
{
time = duration;
}
public void run()
{
long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
long t2 = 0;
do
{
t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
}while(t2 - t1 < time);
}
}
The problem is that using the above code I am not getting accurate intervals. I am always getting 1 sec extra (due to which I subtracted 1000 in the formula) , but this 1 sec is not happening always. So can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong ?