I've been looking through logcat and i've noticed

I/LocationManagerService(   56): Entered alert

Does this mean my alerts are firing, but my intents aren't being
received by my intent receiver?

Thanks,

George

On Mar 5, 2:17 am, George <she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing an application that takes a list of gps co-ordinates and
> distances and triggers an alert (for now) when a user enters the
> proximity of one of the co-ordinates. I'm trying to use a proximity
> alert to do this, which will fire a intent to be received by an intent
> receiver. This is all being done in a service, so it can be run in the
> background. However, im struggling with the pending intent part
> of .addproximityalert.
>
>                  String intentKey =
> "android.intent.action.PROXIMITY_ALERT";
>                  Intent proximityIntent = new Intent(intentKey);
>                  mPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getContext
> (), 0,
>                         proximityIntent,
> PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
>                  lm.addProximityAlert(latitude, longitude, radius, -1,
> mPendingIntent);
>
> The idea being that when a proximity alert is triggered,
> android.intent.action.PROXIMITY_ALERT is broadcast for a receiver to
> pickup. Eclipse is telling me that i need to chance getContext to
> getBaseContext, but proximity alerts aren't firing when i change this.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> George
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