I know this type of questions are aksed so many times...but please first read my question before down voting or marking as duplicate.
I have referred so many SO questions like this for managing alarm but cant find any solution so i am here.
In my app i want to trigger repeating alarm one at daily 8.00 am and others as user specified.
First i tired to repeat alarm using setRepeating...this is my code
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM,Calendar.AM);
//calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent pintent = new Intent(this, AlarmReceiver.class);
pintent.putExtra("id", 0);
pintent.putExtra("ontime", false);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0,
pintent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,calendar.getTimeInMillis(),AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY,pendingIntent);
Actually the problem is alarm is not firing after long sleep. If it test using changing date and time it fires perfactly....but it stops firing after a night...
So i switched to second option as mentioned in given link. I set alarm using setExact as follow and reschedule it on each fire.
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM,Calendar.AM);
//calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent pintent = new Intent(this, AlarmReceiver.class);
pintent.putExtra("id", 0);
pintent.putExtra("ontime", false);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0,
pintent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
AlarmManager.AlarmClockInfo alarmClockInfo = new AlarmManager.AlarmClockInfo(calendar.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent);
am.setAlarmClock(alarmClockInfo, pendingIntent);
} else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
am.setExact(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent);
} else
am.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent);
But steel i am having same issue. It is not repeating daily. Please also consider this is only the example of my default alarm. There can be N no of exact and repeating alarms as user specified.
Someone also suggest me to use service rather than alarm manager, but my service might be killed so i am afraid to use that. One other solution is to check due date and set all alarm daily, but i dont think this is the right way. Is it?
Please suggest me any other method or help me to improve my code. I badly need this to work. Thanx all. My testing devices are HTC One X (4.3), Redmi Prime(6.0) and Mi4i (5.0.2)