Set Repeated alarm at specific time every day

Question

I try to use alarm manager to run alarm at specific time every day. I am using this code

Intent intent = new Intent(AlarmSettings.this, AlarmService.class);
                        intent.putExtra("i", i);
PendingIntent mAlarmSender = PendingIntent.getService(AlarmSettings.this, Id, intent, 0);

AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);

am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(),Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis()+(24*60*60*1000), mAlarmSender);}

the problem was in if cal.getTimeInMillis() value is in the past the alarm run immediately, i do not know why, and when cal.getTimeInMillis() value is in the future it runs correctly at its time.

I need to make it run at specific time every day.

Rikin Patel · Answer 1 · 2016-04-19T12:05:11.713

// every day at 9 am
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

// if it's after or equal 9 am schedule for next day
if (Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY) >= 9) {
    calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1); // add, not set!
}
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 9);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);

AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);

alarmManager.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, calendar.getTimeInMillis(),
            AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pi);

// alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, calendar.getTimeInMillis(),
// AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pi);

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '11 at 13:00

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It looks like your call to

setRepeating(int type, long triggerAtTime, long interval, PendingIntent operation)

Try to set proper triggerAtTime (in the future) - like

Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis()+(24*60*60*1000)

The third param (interval) should obviously be your interval, like

24*60*60*1000

answered Oct 29 '11 at 13:00

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thank you, I understood that i must set triggerAtTime in the future no in the paset – Yasser-Farag Oct 29 '11 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 02:59

This helped me a lot, I had a case where I was using minutes also and came up with the following small amendment:

/* Create calendar and set desired time before this*/

// Compare the current time milliseconds with the desired calendar time milliseconds
if (java.util.Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis() >= 
            calendar.getTimeInMillis() ) {
    calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
}

Set Repeated alarm at specific time every day

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