Trying to use a alarm manager to schedule 'my code' to run daily, i followed a tutorial and tried to adapt it for my code.
Two points:
1) am i using alarm manager in the correct way logically, where to put the code to be affected by alarm manager and the code that is not and just runs normally, and a little bit of information there.
2) Try and fix the log cat error, as you may have realized i am new to android development so am struggling to fix/find the error. - any insight into logcat finding the errors would also be useful.
Here is my 'MainACtivity.java':
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private PendingIntent pendingIntent;
@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.home);
Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Alarm.class);
pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(MainActivity.this, 0, myIntent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
calendar.add(Calendar.SECOND, 10);
alarmManager.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0, pendingIntent);
alarmManager.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(),AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pendingIntent); // time set up is unsuccessful in earlier versions
} @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(android.view.Menu menu) { // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present. super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); return true;
}
}
Here is my 'Alarm.java':
public class Alarm extends Service{
public static final String MyPREFERENCES = "crntPrefs";
private Random rand = new Random();
int[] ids = {R.string.word1, R.string.word2 //etc....};
SharedPreferences sharedpreferences = getSharedPreferences(MyPREFERENCES, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedpreferences.edit();
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
{
//my code
}
}
Logcat:
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): Process: com.knight.spreadtheword, PID: 1137
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.knight.spreadtheword/com.knight.spreadtheword.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid alarm type 11
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2195)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid alarm type 11
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1469)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1419)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.IAlarmManager$Stub$Proxy.set(IAlarmManager.java:155)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.AlarmManager.setImpl(AlarmManager.java:363)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.AlarmManager.set(AlarmManager.java:191)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at com.knight.spreadtheword.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:59)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5231)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2159)
05-17 16:54:23.048: E/AndroidRuntime(1137): ... 11 more
