Hi I am working on application where I have set the notification on user entered date and time through background service. Now I want to set notification/alarm daily at 6 pm to ask user does he want to add another entry? How can I achieve this? Should I use the same background service or Broadcast receiver? Please give me better solution for that and tutorial will be great idea. Thanks in advance.
First set the Alarm Manager as below
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 18);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
Intent intent1 = new Intent(MainActivity.this, AlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(MainActivity.this, 0,intent1, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) MainActivity.this.getSystemService(MainActivity.this.ALARM_SERVICE);
am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pendingIntent);
Create an Broadcast Receiver Class "AlarmReceiver" in this raise the notifications when onReceive
public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context
.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, EVentsPerform.class);
notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0,
notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
Uri alarmSound = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
NotificationCompat.Builder mNotifyBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(
context).setSmallIcon(R.drawable.applogo)
.setContentTitle("Alarm Fired")
.setContentText("Events to be Performed").setSound(alarmSound)
.setAutoCancel(true).setWhen(when)
.setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
.setVibrate(new long[]{1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000});
notificationManager.notify(MID, mNotifyBuilder.build());
MID++;
}
}
and in the manifest file, register receiver for the AlarmReceiver class:
<receiver android:name=".AlarmReceiver"/>
No special permissions are required to raise events via alarm manager.