Android-job: How to make some exact Alarm and then repeat for a given interval.

[yadavvi91]

How to simulate something like this -

Wake up the device to fire the alarm at precisely 8:30 a.m., and every 20 minutes thereafter:

as mentioned in this section in the android training docs

Setting an setExact() with setPeriodic() gives this error -

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't call setExact() on a periodic job.
    at com.evernote.android.job.JobRequest$Builder.build(JobRequest.java:882)

[vRallev]

You need to schedule the exact job first (not periodic) and then schedule the periodic job from the first job. There is no other way in the moment.

[ohsayan]

@vRallev Can you please provide an example?