android crontab

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Hello everyone,

I'm searching for a task scheduler, something like cron in linux. The background is I want my phone to execute a "Wake on Lan" Program every morning and my computer will execute some tasks before I'm awake. I already found something like a task scheduler script in this forum but this didn't help.
Perhaps I'm simply to stupid to work with it, I'm not really familiar with the architecture of android but I know how to do this in linux.

So does anyone have an idea how to realize this on android?

look the application called "locale"
this is a event trigger applications with a lot of "plug-ins"
WOL plugin exist and time based (even location based) rule also possible

I use "timeriffic" to disable the ringer at night. It has lots of options, so check it out.

One more voice for timeriffic

ASE, not yet but soon supposedly

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Android Scripting environment is supposed to be adding cron type scheduling for scripts relatively soon. As long as you're down with scripting that could work.

Originally Posted by Seonetic

I'm searching for a task scheduler, something like cron in linux. The background is I want my phone to execute a "Wake on Lan" Program every morning and my computer will execute some tasks before I'm awake.

Realise this is an old thread but wondering if you made any progress with this, seonetic? Want to schedule a script to run every X seconds and so far all I've seen are apps that wrap a scheduler round the phone's functions - e.g. wifi on/off, silence on/off

Failing this, I may have to grab and build cron...

Doesn't busybox implement cron?

Originally Posted by Gene Poole

Doesn't busybox implement cron?

yes, it appears to:

http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

Good shout, thanks! Will have a play around and report back.

I've been thinking I'd like cron, too. However, I was worried about battery impact. Isn't the typical cron implementation dependent on a running CPU?

Originally Posted by Gene Poole

Doesn't busybox implement cron?

I checked on my N1 and it doesn't have either of the cron applets. I'll grab the source and have a look at including it.