PopUp Alarm on selected days and selected time in android

Question

I want to popup an alarm on selected day i.e. Monday ,Tuesday and so on. And at selected time on every week. I've an idea about interval but I don't know how to get the next day and popup alarm ?

Answer 1

You need to use the AlarmManager and get a WakeClock while processing the Intent in Service (make sure to release it and chose the right kind).

Here is a great example : https://stackoverflow.com/a/8801990/220710

To get the day current day of the week, look at this question : Android: how to get the current day of the week (Monday, etc...) in the user's language?

Then you would use :

setInexactRepeating(int type, long triggerAtMillis, long intervalMillis, PendingIntent operation)

Schedule a repeating alarm that has inexact trigger time requirements; for example, an alarm that repeats every hour, but not necessarily at the top of every hour.

Then you would need to set :

• type = RTC_WAKEUP
• intervalMillis = ms in a week
• triggerAtMillis = System.currentTimeMillis() + ms to the next Monday, Tuesday or whatever
• intent = the intent you want to fire to a Service that will process it.