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I've got an android app that's essentially running on a kiosk and I need it to perform some action every ~4 hours (does not have to be exact) when the app is in the foreground. I know work manager exists, but this work isn't in the background at all. It's just for when the app is in the foreground. I suppose launching a coroutine with a loop with `delay(4.HOURS)` wouldn't be _too_ terrible, right?

I'd say it depends on whether that action needs to be performed even if the Activity goes to the STOPPED state. Here is how I think:
• If the action needs to be performed anyway, I'd use WorkManager
• If the action is strictly bound to some Activity, you could use a `CoroutineScope` bound to the Activity lifecycle
• If the action is bound to the app process, you could start a coroutine in the `GlobalScope`

Consider using `ProcessLifecycleOwner.get().lifecycleScope`

<@U04Q41XBLDC> so coroutineScope bound to activity makes sense. But in that case I would just have to do a delay(4.hours), right?

Yup. I don't anticipate any problems for doing that. And as you're suspending and not blocking, you could even run that coroutine in the `Main` dispatcher without worrying about blocking it