Well I have tried enough to look for the answer to the question mentioned above, but my efforts have been futile so far. I have created an alarm with the help of the alarmmanager class which will fire up the notification at regular intervals of time(probably about 5 days). Below is the code for the implementation of the alarm happening inside onClick() of a button.
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent("android.media.action.DISPLAY_NOTIFICATION");
notificationIntent.addCategory("android.intent.category.DEFAULT");
PendingIntent broadcast = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 100, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
if(fromDateEtxt.getText().toString().length()>0) {
cal.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 10);
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,cal.getTimeInMillis(), 5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, broadcast);
}
The code for the broadcast receiver.
public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, NotificationActivity.class);
TaskStackBuilder stackBuilder = TaskStackBuilder.create(context);
stackBuilder.addParentStack(NotificationActivity.class);
stackBuilder.addNextIntent(notificationIntent);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = stackBuilder.getPendingIntent(0, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);
Notification notification = builder.setContentTitle("Demo App Notification")
.setContentText("New Notification From Demo App..")
.setTicker("New Message Alert!")
.setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
.setContentIntent(pendingIntent).build();
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(0, notification);
}}
The onClick() method apart from starting of the alarm changes the activity also. Now the problem I am facing is I dont know really how to stop the repeating alarm. I want to stop the alarm on a particular date. Secondly, I was confused whether to use the alarm.cancel for cancelling the alarm or to use another alarm for cancellation of the previous alarm as shown here. Apart from this, I wanted to know if the alarm could be cancelled from another activity or does the point seems unnecessary and the limit to the date could be set beforehand?