How Can I Display A Text Perday In My Android App

I'm building a quotes app and i want the app to display a text on the startup page of my app, but i cant seems to get it right. Here is the code i tried... public class MainActivit

Solution 1:

I don't think you need to update the quote from another thread because the user wont be looking at the startup page of your app for 24 hours. Just get a qoute according to the current date every time the start up page is created.

//Display a text on screen in every 24 hours
//seed the random with the current date to get new random number only if the date is changed.
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int seedVal = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR)*12*30+cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)*30+cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
Random rand = new Random(seedVal);
rand.nextInt(AllQuotes.LIFE.length);
lv.setText(AllQuotes.LIFE[x]);
nam.setText(AllQuotes.NAMELIFE[x]);

Solution 2:

1. If you want it to run every 24 hours, the math to convert it to milliseconds is 60000 * 60 * 24. 60000 * 24 will give you 24 minutes.
2. You should be using AlarmManager for such long intervals.