Asynchronous Android Programming - Second Edition

Setting running criteria

With the Builder object reference, we can start setting up the job parameters and the pre-requisites using the member function available in the Builder object.

Let's consider a couple of examples. In our first example, the job should only start when there is a Wi-Fi network available, so to achieve that, we have to use the following code to set the network availability pre-requisite:

jobIBuilder.setRequiredNetworkType(JobInfo.NETWORK_TYPE_UNMETERED);

An unmetered network connection means that you have a connection where you don't have a limited amount of data usage per month and you are not charged when you go over the usage limit. When a network type is not specified, as a condition, the default value is NETWORK_TYPE_NONE ...