I am creating a notification in my Game. I want to show the notification if the player is not playing the game for sometime. I am using the below PendingIntent with alarm setup to create a notification. With this I am able to create notifications.
Question: If the player plays the game I need to cancel the existing pending Intent and create a new Pending Intent. I hope the Pending Intent flags will be used to achieve ? Please advice. Also it would be a great help if you could throw some light on the available Flags.
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
The only way to cancel a PendingIntent that has been created with FLAG_ONE_SHOT is to hold on to a reference to that PendingIntent and then call cancel() on the reference.
If you no longer have a reference, you cannot cancel this PendingIntent.
You don't need to use FLAG_ONE_SHOT, so I wouldn't do that. It causes more problems than it solves.
Based on your answer to my question in the comments, what you want to do is to cancel the alarm. You don't need to cancel the PendingIntent. To cancel the alarm, just do this:
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, intent, 0);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
am.cancel(pendingIntent);
If you don't have any "extras" in the PendingIntent, then you can just create your PendingIntent like this:
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, intent, 0);
If you have "extras" in the PendingIntent that need to be replaced when you reset the alarm, you can create the PendingIntent like this:
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, intent,
PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
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I am working on application which is get the alarm time from database every 2 AM and then at the specified time the activity shows up, my app works fine, but when I manually change the data/time of the device, previous alarms are triggered and I should prevent to this to happens.
Here is my PendingIntent:
Intent i = new Intent(mContext, AlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(G.context, _id, i,
PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
Which each _id is unique and when I make a receiver for date changed event before my alarm cancel method fired previous alarms go off!
Can some body help to solve this problem?
Try this code:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, Mote.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 1253, intent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
For cancel the alarm:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, Mote.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 1253, intent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
Edit
Well you can look for the answer and modify as per your requirements:
How to stop Android AlarmManager when there is a manual system time change?
AlarmManager: how to schedule a daily alarm and deal with time changes
Intent intent1 = new Intent(G.context, DailyAlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(G.context,
G.dateTimesetAlarm.getDayOfYear(), intent1, 0);
mAlarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
pendingIntent.cancel();
The PendingIntent sends a broad cast when the method getBroadcast is called.
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)this.getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent alarmIntent = new Intent(Constants.ALARM_ACTION);
PendingIntent mPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, alarmIntent, 0);
alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, getMidnight()
.getTimeInMillis(), mPendingIntent);
I want the broadcast to only be sent when the alarm goes off not when getBroadcast is called, but the alarm requires a pending intent. Any ideas?
FIGURED IT OUT:
In the API Documentation - If the time occurs in the past, the alarm will be triggered immediately.
I am setting multiple alarms which will have the exact same PendingIntent object, but their time of going off is different. If I cancel one alarm by providing the same Intent object to PendingIntent, and pass this to AlarmManager.cancel(), will it cancel all the alarms (i.e. with different starting times) or will it exhibit some other behavior?
Here is the code:
while(size != 0)
{
timeToSet = getNewTime(); //gets calendar object
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyAlarmReceiver.class);
intent.putExtra("uniqueid", uuid);
intent.putExtra("vibrate", myalarm.getVibrate());
intent.putExtra("important", myalarm.getImportant());
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(),
0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | Intent.FILL_IN_DATA);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, timeToSet.getTimeInMillis(), 604800000, pendingIntent);
size--;
}
So the Intent object is same for all the alarms, but the time is different.
Now when I cancel these alarms:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyAlarmReceiver.class);
intent.putExtra("uniqueid", uuid);
intent.putExtra("vibrate", myalarm.getVibrate());
intent.putExtra("important", myalarm.getImportant());
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(), 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | Intent.FILL_IN_DATA);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
Will all the alarms get cancelled? That is what I want it to do. I could use a different requestCode in every PendingIntent, but it will be better if all of them get cancelled as I dont want to maintain and store these extra requestCodes.
Thanks!
If you have a predefined amount of alarms you can set a unique requestCode (second parameter of getBroadcast) for each alarm. But I'm not sure if that works for you. If you don't specify a requestCode all alarms will be seen as equal by filterEqualsand therefore all alarms will be canceled.
I am creating a repeating alarm. This works fine using the following code:
Intent intent = new Intent(this.ctx, AlarmReceiver.class);
intent.setAction("" + notificationId);
intent.putExtra(AlarmReceiver.TITLE, alarmTitle);
intent.putExtra(AlarmReceiver.SUBTITLE, alarmSubTitle);
intent.putExtra(AlarmReceiver.TICKER_TEXT, alarmTicker);
intent.putExtra(AlarmReceiver.NOTIFICATION_ID, notificationId);
PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.ctx, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
AlarmManager am = getAlarmManager();
am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, triggerTime, 60000, sender);
Now I want to cancel an existing notification message (which pops up every minute for testing purposes), I invoke the following code, passing it an identical notificationId:
Intent intent = new Intent(this.ctx, AlarmReceiver.class);
intent.setAction("" + notificationId);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getService(this.ctx, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
AlarmManager am = getAlarmManager();
try {
am.cancel(pi);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(PLUGIN_NAME, "AlarmManager update was not canceled. " + e.toString());
}
I see that pi != null, however the notification keeps coming and is not being cancelled. Both code snippets reside in the same class.
Basically I have two questions:
- How can I cancel a single alarm using its unique ID?
- How can I cancel all alarms, regardless of the ID?
UPDATE: I found that posting my issue here helps to get my mind straight. Changing the cancel code from:
PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getService( ... )
To:
PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast( ... )
Helps to solve question 1. However the code to cancel all events, still does not work:
Intent intent = new Intent(this.ctx, AlarmReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.ctx, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
AlarmManager am = getAlarmManager();
am.cancel(pi);
I'm a noob here. But I think if you want to cancel the alarm, you have to use the exact same instance of PendingIntent. That means "their action, data, type, class, and categories are the same" as defined by filterEquals(Intent) . Therefore, you need to use the same requestCode here, not 0. Maybe you could use a list to store the Notification Ids, and iterate them to cancel all alarms.
I think , you should use same AlarmManager object to cancel the alram and also try to use same PendingIntent.
I'm using this code (from my activity) to start a periodic timer in the application:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyBroadcastReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(), 234324243, intent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis(),(i * 1000), pendingIntent);
Toast.makeText(this, "Alarm set in " + i + " seconds",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
I want to know how can i know (from a different activity) is the timer is running?
One possibility I can think of is to check if the pending Intent is defined.
You can call
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(), 234324243, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE);
this will give you the pending Intent, or null if the Intent was not specified. This will not guarantee that the alarm was set but it is an easy way to check if the set alarm code was called before.
Another possibility is to save all set alarms in a SharedPreferences file. In this way you can look for all alarms set by your app in the shared prefs file.
As far as I can see there is no way to get a list of set alarms for your application from the AlarmManager
in stop function
Intent intent = new Intent(this, LocaitonSampleBroadcaseReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast( this.getApplicationContext(), 234324243, intent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
just add this:
pendingIntent.cancel();
so you can use the string wrote comment Janusz
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(), 234324243, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE);