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How can I program to make an android device wake up at a given time? Is mobileUnlockIdleTimer the solution?

Thanks Craig, Klaus and Jacque. Wait with messages works perfectly. Somehow I had assumed that the "with messages" bit referred to text messages as in a msg box, NOT system messages. Now that's sorted, the Abort button is a doddle! Just as a technical detail. Am I right in believing that the wait co...

Thanks Klaus and others, I could not find any reference to "Abort" in any of the topics in the forum - hence "out of topic" Is that logical? Anyway this post might be more appropriately placed in the Android development section as this is the platform I am coding for. This is a simplified version of...

Thanks, Craig Your pseudocode above is what I hoped to do. It works fine on a windows pc, but when converted to android on a mobile device the buttons appear to be frozen, and there is no keyboard. I have experimented, and find to my surprise that on the mobile although the buttons do not react (cha...

I am writing an app on which the main stack has a RUN button. This activates code incorporating a timer loop which could run for several hours. I would like to incorporate an ABORT button on the stack which when pressed by the user, exits the loop, does some housekeeping, then closes the app. The pr...