alarm

I know there are many questions on SOF, but this is the "newest" one. The thing is, I'm trying to create and alarm app, and I know for a fact that there are alarm apps out there that works perfectly ( somehow ), even if the app is not running and is in the background. My question is: how do you start playing sound after your app is already in the background ?? UILocalNotification is great, but you'll only get application:(_:didReceiveLocalNotification:) after the user has already clicked on your notification, so playing sound using AVAudioPlayer didn't work, i want to play sound regardless

I'm developing an media player application for Android, for which I need to handle any Alarm notification, and based on that I'll pause my playback. When the Alarm in snoozed or dismissed, I'll then resume the playback. I googled a lot for the Alarm handling, but what I found was the way to enable Alarm notifications through code, set the intent and then handle it. However, no where could I locate just handling the Alarm notification part. I don't need to set the Alarm on, it could've been set by the user, and I don't need to programmatically. All I need is just handle that notification. Any

I am developing a music app. I want to detect that other apps using speaker or alarm ringing for play/pause music. For phone call i use PhoneStateListener. I tryed OnAudioFocusChangeListener for to detect other audios. But didn't work. I wondering how to solve this problem. I solved my problem for default alarm application: public static final String ALARM_ALERT_ACTION = "com.android.deskclock.ALARM_ALERT"; public static final String ALARM_SNOOZE_ACTION = "com.android.deskclock.ALARM_SNOOZE"; public static final String ALARM_DISMISS_ACTION = "com.android.deskclock.ALARM_DISMISS"; public static

I just discovered this application : https://market.android.com/details?id=de.j4velin.lockscreenCalendar It seem that is now possible to write some text inside the lockscreen in the place where the alarm is usually written. I would like to display custom text on this place, but have totally no idea on how to achieve that. This guy succeed to write calendar events at this place. Thank a lot for any clue//snippet that would help me. This is astonishingly easy to achieve and astonishingly badly documented. All you need to do is set the alarm string in the system settings, as follows: String

This is a Lollipop-specific question , since the API has changed. To find out how to do this on earlier versions, see related question: Controlling the Alarm icon in status bar I would like to know how to turn on / off the system Alarm icon in the status bar as shown in this image: Timely Alarm Clock controls this icon on Lollipop as of release 1.3. Prior to that release, the code was using private APIs as detailed in the related question . The new technique they use works on an unrooted Nexus 5 running v5.0.1. Update It looks like there is a lot more the this new API than just changing the

I need to check data update periodly, but the data is only updating during the daytime, so I want this repeating action run only in that time section for saving battery and bandwidth. What should I do? If the service is talking to the cloud with HTTP get/post/whatever requests, then note that a C2DM solution would net better battery life, and that a SyncAdapter solution could provide a few benefits. (I recommend watching the Google I/O videos on both topics.) The following code does something close to what you originally asked about. public class MyUpdateService extends IntentService { public