I want to make a time or date listener which for example invoke an activity every day at 9 AM. I am not sure what is the best way to do that? I know I can use Alarm Manager, but I don't know how to make it repetitive?
Does anyone know? Thank you very much in advance.
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I know I can use Alarm Manager, but I don't know how to make it repetitive?
Use setRepeating()
and specify a repeat interval of INTERVAL_DAY
:
static void scheduleAlarms(Context ctxt) {
AlarmManager mgr=(AlarmManager)ctxt.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent i=new Intent(ctxt, ScheduledService.class);
PendingIntent pi=PendingIntent.getService(ctxt, 0, i, 0);
mgr.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME,
SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY,
AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pi);
}
The above code will set up an alarm that will go off 24 hours from right now and every 24 hours thereafter. To have it start at 9am, replace ELAPSED_REALTIME
with RTC
and replace SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY
with 9am (today or tomorrow), such as via a Calendar
object.