Using WorkManager to schedule background tasks
WorkManager is a Jetpack library that is best suited for performing long-running tasks in the background. It ensures that background tasks are completed even when your app restarts or the phone restarts. With WorkManager, you can either schedule one-time jobs or recurring jobs.
We will start by adding the WorkManager dependency to our project. Follow these steps:
- Let us head over to the
libs.versions.toml
file and define the work version in ourversions
section as follows:work = "2.8.1"
- In the libraries section, add the following dependencies:
work-runtime = { module = "androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx", version.ref = "work" } workmanager-koin = { module = "io.insert-koin:koin-androidx-workmanager", version.ref = "koin" }
Here, we have two dependencies: the
work-runtime-ktx
dependency, which is the core dependency for WorkManager, and thekoin-androidx-workmanager
dependency,...