Random Notifications Android

Question

I am creating an widget application and would like to send random "words of encouragement" to the user. Something like positive affirmations would appear in the notification area, but not due to a user action, but rather a random action internal. I would grab a "words of encouragement" randomly from a database full of quotes.

Not sure how clear this is, but if it is to someone and they can point me in the right direction...greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Why don't you create the Service? You need no GUI to initiate notification creation. So, my suggestions:

• from appWidgetProvider start Service
• On Service start create Handler that will periodically (or with some variation) trigger
• When Handler triggers, pick random record from SQLite database (previously filled with many "words of encouragement") and send Notification
• Create some criterion that will call stopSelf() in the service