Yes, the alarm manager will schedule it and then you can create an activity to 
be called with Theme.Dialog.





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 From: TreKing <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [android-developers] How to schedule a daily popup dialog box even 
when the app may not be running...?
 



On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Boyd Speer <[email protected]> wrote:

How can I schedule a daily popup dialog box (that appears to remind the user to 
do something) that remains visible until it is manually closed by the user?
>
>
>Would a service be utilized? If so how? Or would an alarm be the best 
>solution. If the app is killed or restarted can the popup still be scheduled 
>to happen?
>
>
>Thanks for your suggestions.

Use AlarmManager to schedule a PendingIntent that starts an Activity that has a 
dialog theme.

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TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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