[android-developers] How to run a service from 9 AM to 4 PM daily?

Question :1 => 

I want to run a service from 9 AM to 4 PM daily. I plans two method.Which one is best?

Method 1:

Inside Service:(This service initialized at on create of activity when first time application starts)

 if (9 AM <=current time<=4 PM)

{

  fetch data from server. 

}

Method 2:

In Activity oncreate use Alarm manager and start a service based on the alarm manager.Then wake up next day  and start service.

Which method is best?

Question :2 => How to find a service is running or not programmatically?

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