Hi, On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:02 PM, John Goche <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 1. Suppose I set the alarm for the first time for it to expire at a > future > >> time. > >> In this case it goes off immediately instead of after the del > > You have a bug in your code, where you are supplying the wrong time. > If I change the line of code alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis() , pendingIntent); to the following: alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis() * 1000 * 60, pendingIntent); or even to the following alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis() * 1000 * 60 * 60, pendingIntent); and recompile and run then the broadcast receiver still fires off immediately. There must be another answer... > Anyone know what is wrong with the OP's code? Presumably, hour and min are zero. > > Also, setTimeInMillis() is redundant, as Calendar.getInstance() is > already initialized to the current time. > > > No error messages in CatLog for this one. > > Just an immediate firing of the broadcast receiver. > > Which means that you are setting the alarm time to the current time. > So then why the above? > > Here is some sample code showing setting a recurring alarm to occur > every day at the same time, culled from a SharedPreference: > > public static void setAlarm(Context ctxt) { > AlarmManager > mgr=(AlarmManager)ctxt.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); > Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance(); > SharedPreferences > prefs=PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(ctxt); > String time=prefs.getString("alarm_time", "12:00"); > > cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, TimePreference.getHour(time)); > cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, TimePreference.getMinute(time)); > cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0); > cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0); > > if (cal.getTimeInMillis()<System.currentTimeMillis()) { > cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1); > } > > mgr.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), > AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, > getPendingIntent(ctxt)); > } > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
