skydoves / only

:bouquet: An easy way to persist and run code block only as many times as necessary on Android.

only's Issues

[FR] Set a time period along with the number of times to do an action

Is your feature request related to a problem?

So the thing is, say I want to show a feedback dialog to the user every 2 months and do this for a certain number of times.

Describe the solution you'd like:

Set a time period and number of times the dialog should appear.

Time period = value in duration
Count = number

You can even set exponential backoff for that. Like for example, first 3 counts, it asks every 3 months (the developer sets this time period parameter of course), then once the count is reached, it'll ask every 6 months and so on. Now with de-sugaring, you can incorporate java 8 time libraries for that.

Repeat every X times

I almost wanted to implement the Once library (https://github.com/jonfinerty/Once) until I found your library. The Once has a feature I'd really like to see in Only and that is repeating a task every X times. There can be multiple variants for this feature.

Variant 1) perform action on the first time (when action has never been performed) and after X times
Variant 2) perform action after X times
Variant 3) perform action after X times and keep redoing this for Y times or an infinite amount of times

Examples:

1. Ask user to rate app after opening the app 10 times, keep asking again after 10 times until the user has rated the app

2. Notify user about new feature on the app launch and remind them every 10 app startups 2 times (meaning this action is done after 20 app startups)

3. Keep reminding the user about something every X times for-ever

I hope you can consider this functionality and for starters just implement the basic one (variant 1 or 2)

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