Comments on: Android Basics – Alarm Service

By: Abhishek Gondalia

Abhishek Gondalia — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:47:00 +0000

Hmm. Example is simply amazing & impressive. I’m trying the same kinda application which can schedule alarm at appropriate time, only one requirement I’m facing issue in is ‘Setting Reminder Start & EndDate with possible days for the reoccurence”.

E.G.

The app requires to schedule alarm at 5:30, 6:30 on Sunday, Monday, Friday starting from date 01/01/11 to 21/06/11.

I’m not sure how i can provide this Sunday, Monday & Friday alarm with your provided code. I read this “You can
also pass an array of boolean for each day like Sunday, Monday etc.”

Will this fulfill my requirement?? If yes how to do that.

Sorry for long post & Thanks in advance,

Abhishek

By: sathish

sathish — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:18:00 +0000

Hi,
I am newby to android development. I am developing an alarm application in android,
I need to create a single repeat alarm which will repeat in selected multiple days in a week like ,if i select every monday ,every tuesday,every wednesday then the created alarm should repeat in those three days in every week until it will be canceled.

Can you help me in this?

thanks in advance
s.avunoori
sathya.sri69@gmail.com

By: Sr98bj

Sr98bj — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:12:00 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, for ADK 2.0+, how does the snooze functionality work? Is it just resetting the pendingIntent with the snooze interval?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:49:00 +0000

Does ongoing notification stays on between alarms?

By: Alioooop

Alioooop — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:23:29 +0000

@mayur birari that notification appears on the left side right? but I want to have a on the right ide like in the real alarm app! other third party apps have that so it should go

By: mayur birari

mayur birari — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:42:26 +0000

Hi @Alioooop
to set the alarm icon in the statusbar, add Notification on AlarmReceiver intent class, used following code to show the alarm_icon,

//using notification manager
NotificationManager mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

int icon = R.drawable.alarm_icon;
CharSequence tickerText = “Hello”;
long when = System.currentTimeMillis();

Notification notification = new Notification(icon, tickerText, when);

Context context = getApplicationContext();
CharSequence contentTitle = “My notification”;
CharSequence contentText = “Hello World!”;
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, AlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);

notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText, contentIntent);

final int HELLO_ID = 1;

mNotificationManager.notify(HELLO_ID, notification);

By: Alioooop

Alioooop — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:27:37 +0000

how can I get the alarm icon in the statusbar? something in the manifest right?

By: Garry

Garry — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:44:02 +0000

Trying to figure out all the android stuff – brand new to it — and having to build a simple alarm clock but can’t find *any* source code for 2.01 — can anyone point me to a simple example source code?

By: Richy

Richy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:01:23 +0000

Same question as Kevin asked. What entries i should put in manifest.xml to make this work.
Can somebody please tell me what should be the ‘intentname’ which i have to specify in manifest.xml
While answering please remove the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs..

By: Richy

Richy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:59:20 +0000

Same question as Kevin asked. What entries i should put in manifest.xml to make this work.
Can somebody please tell me what should be the which i have to specify in manifest.xml