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Héctor Ortiz
Héctor Ortiz

Reputation: 267

Alarmmanager or Alarmclock

I want to program an app that has two independent, repetitive alarms. There are two classes seem to be able do this: AlarmManager and AlarmClock. I've tested AlarmManager, but when Android restarts all alarms are cleared.

Which should I use?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1667

Answers (2)

prayagupadhyay
prayagupadhyay

Reputation: 31252

AlarmManager services allow you to schedule your application to be run at some point in the future. When an alarm goes off, the Intent that had been registered for it is broadcast by the system, automatically starting the target application if it is not already running.

You may find the SO post helpful Android AlarmManager

AlarmManager mgr=(AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); 
Intent i=new Intent(context, OnAlarmReceiver.class); 
PendingIntent pi=PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, i, 0);
mgr.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, SystemClock.elapsedRealtime(), PERIOD, pi);

Whereas AlarmClock provider contains an Intent action and extras that can be used to start an Activity to set a new alarm in an alarm clock application.

Upvotes: 1

user468311
user468311

Reputation:

Use BroadcastReceiver to handle Android OS boot broadcast and reschedule your alarms.

Upvotes: 2

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