Reset a sharedpreference at a specified time with

Question

I have two counters stored with sharedpreferences and I need to reset them to zero everyday at midnight, I know I have to use alarmmanager but I don't really know how I have to do it, I looked at SO exemples and on the google documentation but can't find a way to do it.

the two counters I have are stored like this:

SharedPreferences.Editor editor = counters.edit(); editor.putInt("wcounter", wcounter); editor.commit();

how can I reset them at midnight?

Answer 1

Set the alarm somewhere appropriate in your code:

private void schedAlarm(Context context) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstace();
    cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
    cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
    cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
    cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
    cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
    PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, new Intent(context, YourBroadcastReceiver.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
    AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), 1000*60*60*24, pi);
}

Add YourBroadcastReceiver as class and in AndroidManifest. In YourBroadcastReceiver:

public void onReceive (Context context, Intent intent) {
    PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context)
        .edit().remove("wcounter").commit();
}