The app I’m writing needs to know if a ‘boot session‘, for want of a better term, has changed but it doesn’t need to actually start at boot and I would prefer if possible not to have to use the RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED permission.
So I was wondering if there is any device-wide boot session id or count I can query and store in my db to check against later. I know I can get the time in milliseconds since boot but I don’t think that will be useful in this case.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Answer
Why not store the (absolute) date and time of the last boot in your database? You can compute it easily using the time since boot, and given that a boot takes much longer than a millisecond it should be fairly accurate.