How to create a persistent AlarmManager

Question

Edit: Clarified the question based on CommonsWare\'s answer

We\'re scheduling an an alarm via AlarmManager to trigger every 60 seconds. When our application is kille

Answer 1

About the alarm manager in the Docs - the explanation is somewhat confusing and I honestly still don't get it fully. I have this bit of code for the widget part that solved the problem in my case.

package com.test.mytestwidget;

import java.util.Calendar;
import android.app.AlarmManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.appwidget.AppWidgetManager;
import android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;  

public class MyWidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {   

    private PendingIntent service = null;  

    public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager,
            int[] appWidgetIds) {
        super.onUpdate(context, appWidgetManager, appWidgetIds);                

        final AlarmManager m = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);  

        final Calendar TIME = Calendar.getInstance();  
        TIME.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);  
        TIME.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);  
        TIME.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);  

        final Intent i = new Intent(context, UpdateWidgetService.class);  

        if (service == null)  
        {  
            service = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, i, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);  
        }  

        m.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC, TIME.getTime().getTime(), 30000, service);  

     }

     @Override  
     public void onDisabled(Context context)  
     {              
         final AlarmManager m = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);  

         m.cancel(service);  
         super.onDisabled(context);
     }      

}