[android-developers] Need Android Service suggestions

Hi all

My requirement:

Need some piece of code executing every 5 minutes (no UI). This code
needs to access server thru internet and get some data and use them on
the device. This code is not heavy weight. Just light weight fetch of
5K to 10K. And the data is not always fetched. Data fetch from server
happens only once a day or so.

I thought about a service and have written one with a timer and a
thread (does the server data fetch). But I read some articles and docs
that a service might be *killed* by the OS in low memory or idle
situations.

Question:

Whats the suggested method to achieve this goal in android? I would
like the code to run even in low memory situations or at least be run
after the memory situation gets better in the OS (OS can kill my code/
app and restart the code when its better; but don't wanna wait for
hours).

Thank you for the help!
Jacob.

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