Setting up Alarm Manager is creating 2 Instances of my Main Activity

Question

I have 2 activities, a Main Activity and SetAlarm Activity. I call SetAlarm Activity from Main. When I set up the alarm I create an instance of my main. How do I set up the

Answer 1

I dont know why you have the SetAlarm Activity, you dont need a activity to set the alarm. Anyways, AlarmManager is a pain to get working. It took me a while to get it up and running. This is what I have in my code now, running.

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.add(Calendar.SECOND, 5);
        AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
        Intent notifyintent = new Intent(this, OnAlarmReceiver.class);
        notifyintent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        notifyintent.setAction("android.intent.action.NOTIFY");
        PendingIntent notifysender = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, notifyintent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
        am.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), 20 * 1000,
                notifysender);

OnAlarmReceiver

public class OnAlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        // PullPendingRequests.acquireStaticLock(context)
        try {
            lock = getLock(context);
            lock.acquire();
            context.startService(new Intent(context, UpdateCustomerRequests.class));
        } finally {
            if (lock.isHeld()) {
                lock.release();
            }
        }
    }

    private static final String NAME = "com.commonsware.cwac.wakeful.WakefulIntentService";
    private static volatile PowerManager.WakeLock lockStatic = null;
    private static PowerManager.WakeLock lock;

    synchronized private static PowerManager.WakeLock getLock(Context context) {
        if (lockStatic == null) {
            PowerManager mgr = (PowerManager) context.getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);

            lockStatic = mgr.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, NAME);
            lockStatic.setReferenceCounted(true);
        }

        return (lockStatic);
    }
}

IntentService which is called by OnAlarmReceiver

public class UpdateCustomerRequests extends IntentService {
@Override
    final protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        //
        //Your stuff here
        //
    }

    public class LocalBinder extends Binder {
        public UpdateCustomerRequests getService() {
            return UpdateCustomerRequests.this;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return bindToHomeScreen;
    }
}

Android Manifest

• Inside manifest tag

• Inside application tag