does Alarm Manager persist even after reboot?

Xelamae picture Xelamae · Aug 20, 2012 · Viewed 28.9k times · Source

I am really new to android, I have been researching about alarms. I want to alarm if there is a birthday on that day. I've have used alarm manager. I was confused because i have read that it clears after reboot. I don't have an android phone so I'm just using the emulator.

Here's my code :

public void schedAlarm() {
    AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, AlarmService.class);
    pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, contact.id, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
    am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, timetoAlarm, nextalarm, pendingIntent);
}

I made this BroadcastRecever in replace for AlarmSerivce Here :

public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    nm = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    CharSequence from = "It Birthday!";
    CharSequence message =" Greet your friend.";
    PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, new Intent(), 0);
    Notification notif = new Notification(R.drawable.ic_launcher, "Birthday", System.currentTimeMillis());
    notif.setLatestEventInfo(context, from, message, contentIntent);
    nm.notify(1, notif);
 }

is this enough??

Answer

Lucifer picture Lucifer · Aug 20, 2012

A simple answer would be NO. But yes you can achieve this by creating a BroadCastReceiver which will start the Alarm while booting completes of the device.

Use <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" /> for trapping boot activity in BroadCastReceiver class.

You need to add above line in AndroidManifest.xml as follows,

<receiver android:name=".AutoStartUp" android:enabled="true" android:exported="false" android:permission="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED">
     <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
    </intent-filter>
    </receiver>