Remote Alarm Broadcast Communicating data - android

I need to have a periodic polling mechanism to detect new orders (after the last order the user has seen) for which
I have setup a couple of broadcast recievers(one for boot activate,and other for executing recurring task) and a service.I use Alarmmanager to periodically call the PeriodicTaskReciever.
Now I need to know how to communicate with such a remote broadcast reciever(A flag parameter indicating the last user seen order needs updation). I've tried shared preferences and as indicated in a lot of articles remote process is unable to read updated values of SP
<service android:name=".OrderService" />
<receiver android:name=".BootReciever" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
</application>
<receiver android:name=".PeriodicTaskReciever"
android:process=":remote"
/>
My PeriodicTask Reciever is
public class PeriodicTaskReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{ private NotificationManager mNotificationManager;
NotificationCompat.Builder builder;
static int lastOrder;
int NOTIFICATION_COUNTID=100;
public void onReceive(final Context context, Intent intent)
{
Log.d("DataHandlerService", "Service hbeat");
if(intent.getIntExtra("update",0)!=0){
lastOrder=intent.getIntExtra("update",0);
Log.d("DataHandlerService", "Last order updated");
}
else{
if(Utils.isNetworkAvailable(AppController.getInstance().getApplicationContext())){
Uri.Builder uri = new Uri.Builder();
uri.scheme("http");
uri.authority(Constants.URL_API_HOST);
uri.path(Constants.URL_API_ORDERPATH);
uri.appendQueryParameter("lastorder",getLastOrderFromSharedPref());
String url=uri.build().toString();
Log.d("DataHandlerService", "Service hbeat"+url);
JsonObjectRequest jsonObjectRequest=new JsonObjectRequest(url,null,new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() {
#Override
public void onResponse(JSONObject jsonObject) {
try {
if(!jsonObject.isNull("status") && jsonObject.getString("status").equals("success")){
if(Integer.parseInt(jsonObject.getString("data"))>0){
displayNotification("You have "+ Integer.parseInt(jsonObject.getString("data"))+ " new orders ",context);
}}
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
},new Response.ErrorListener() {
#Override
public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError volleyError) {
}
});
AppController.getInstance().addToRequestQueue(jsonObjectRequest,"PollOrders");}}
}
public void SetAlarm(Context context)
{
AlarmManager am=(AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent i = new Intent(context, PeriodicTaskReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, i, 0);
am.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis(), 1000 * 60 , pi); // Millisec * Second * Minute
}
public void CancelAlarm(Context context)
{
Intent intent = new Intent(context, PeriodicTaskReceiver.class);
PendingIntent sender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.cancel(sender);
}
Am I misusing the remote. I need to notify users pretty much from the background when my app isnt running. And once the users click on a notification or dismiss it the lastOrder value gets updated.

There is no work of android:process=":remote" for a BroadcastReceiver. So remove that and here you are no using intent-filter for receiver so you need to export that BroadcastReceiver.
Instead of doing
<receiver android:name=".PeriodicTaskReciever"
android:process=":remote"
/>
export your receiver. like
<receiver android:name=".PeriodicTaskReciever"
android:exported="true"
/>

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Should I use android: process =":remote" in my receiver?

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I think this is because of START_STICKY. I think during the day the system closes your running Service to free resources, and START_STICKY forces it to restart. And on restart onStartCommand() is triggered again.
The decision may to use IntentService instead. I don't see the need of using Service here.

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I am not very certain about the details of how and why.
But i changed this
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<intent-filter android:priority="1000">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED" />
<data android:scheme="package" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
to
<receiver android:name="package.UnistallBroadcast" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED" />
<data android:scheme="package" />
</intent-filter>
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I HAVE to be missing something, I made a test Application Project for myself and this works perfectly there but when I tried to implement my AlarmManager into my main project's fragment it just won't work. Here's my code:
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Your code seems to work.
But it the problem is the manifest. the
<receiver android:name=".AlarmReceiver"/>
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I've double check it with my app. so you are good to go.
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<receiver android:name=".AlarmReceiver">
<intent-filter>
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</intent-filter>
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...
}
and in your receiver:
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