Hi,
I want to use an alarm to run some code at a certain time. I have successfully implemented an alarm with the broadcast receiver registered in the manifest but the way i understand it, this method uses a separate class for the broadcast receiver.
I can use this method to start another activity but I cant use it to run a method in my main activity?
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3122564/how-can-i-notify-a-running-activity-from-a-broadcast-receiver)
So I have been trying to register my broadcast receiver in my main activity as explained in the answer above.
private BroadcastReceiver receiver = new BroadcastReceiver(){
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Toast.makeText(context, "hello", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
uploadDB();
}
};
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
filter.addAction(null);
this.registerReceiver(this.receiver, filter);
}
public void onPause() {
super.onPause();
this.unregisterReceiver(this.receiver);
}
However I have been unable to get this to work with alarm manager, I am unsure as to how i should link the alarm intent to the broadcast receiver. Could anyone point me to an example of registering an alarm manager broadcast receiver dynamically in the activity? Or explain how i would do this?
Thanks for any help