Android Alarm manager working, but delayed

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S.M_Emamian picture S.M_Emamian · Dec 28, 2014 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I would like to make a delay(10 min) for user then after it, user can edit something.

to do this,I created a setAlarm function :

public void setAlarm(Context context,int user,int time) {
   AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
   Intent intent = new Intent(context, sef_time.class);
   intent.putExtra(ONE_TIME, Boolean.FALSE);
   PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, 0);
   am.set(AlarmManager.RTC, 1000*60*time , pi); 
}

everything works fine, but my alarm manager has a delay. for example:

setAlarm(.....,int 10);

It has a delay : 00:10:03 second or 00:10:10 second 00:10:20 second !

where is my wrong ?

Answer

Assaf Gamliel picture Assaf Gamliel · Dec 28, 2014

As you can see here:

Beginning in API 19, the trigger time passed to this method is treated as inexact: the alarm will not be delivered before this time, but may be deferred and delivered some time later. The OS will use this policy in order to "batch" alarms together across the entire system, minimizing the number of times the device needs to "wake up" and minimizing battery use. In general, alarms scheduled in the near future will not be deferred as long as alarms scheduled far in the future.

With the new batching policy, delivery ordering guarantees are not as strong as they were previously. If the application sets multiple alarms, it is possible that these alarms' actual delivery ordering may not match the order of their requested delivery times. If your application has strong ordering requirements there are other APIs that you can use to get the necessary behavior; see setWindow(int, long, long, PendingIntent) and setExact(int, long, PendingIntent).

Applications whose targetSdkVersion is before API 19 will continue to get the previous alarm behavior: all of their scheduled alarms will be treated as exact.

If it's very important that the alarm be exact, use setExact (When the device's SDK is 19 or above).

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