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Asynchronous Android Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883248
Pages 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steve Liles Steve Liles
Profile icon Steve Liles

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Asynchronous Android Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Asynchronous Programming in Android 2. Performing Work with Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread 3. Exploring the AsyncTask 4. Exploring the Loader 5. Interacting with Services 6. Scheduling Work with AlarmManager 7. Exploring the JobScheduler API 8. Interacting with the Network 9. Asynchronous Work on the Native Layer 10. Network Interactions with GCM 11. Exploring Bus-based Communications 12. Asynchronous Programing with RxJava Index

Resetting alarms after a system reboot


The AlarmManager service is a convenient class to schedule working on your Android application; however, when the device shuts down or reboots, all your alarms will be lost since the system does not retain them between system restarts.

To reset the alarm, we should persist your alarms and create a BroadcastReceiver that sets our alarms whenever a system boot happens:

public class BootBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    // Retrieve the persisted alarms
    List<SMSSchedule> persistedAlarms = getStoredSchedules();
    // Set again the alarms
    ...
  }
  List<SMSSchedule> getStoredSchedules() {...}
}

In order to store our alarms, we created a POJO class SMSSchedule as the model for our schedules.

Second, in the Android Manifest we have to register our BroadcastReceiver to receive the boot event:

<receiver
    android:name=".chapter6.BootBroadcastReceiver"
...
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