Thanks Mark! On Mar 4, 11:06 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Open wrote: > > Can someone get me started on how to set a repeating alarm so that it > > fires at a specific time on a specific day of the week. For example, > > I would like an alarm to trigger an intent every Monday at 8am. > > > Looks like a lot of apps do this (e.g., Locale, Alarm Clock, etc.) > > Step #1: Figure out the time you want the alarm to next be fired, in > milliseconds since the epoch (i.e., System.currentTimeMillis() timebase) > > Step #2: Figure out the period in between the alarms in milliseconds > > Step #3: Use AlarmManager to register a RTC or RTC_WAKEUP alarm that > will issue a PendingIntent using those two values > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available!
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