how to set alarm to repeat monthly

Question

Currently I am working on an application to set reminders on monthly basis. I am not able to provide the correct repeating interval for my alarmmanager. Pls provide info about the same. this is my code, but this will not raise alarm for Feb or months having 30 days. Also pls provide code to set yearly repeating alaram.

repeatTime=(AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY*31);
mAlarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, when.getTimeInMillis(), repeatTime, pi);

Thanks, Sharath

Answer 1

this is how you calculate interval between today in extacly one month after, use this logic to reset alarm everytime once it triggers. i.e set alarm to the point when you want to start, supply some pending intent, once alarm triggers use below code to get next trigger time, and set alarm again to trigger at that time.

private long getDuration(){
    // get todays date
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    // get current month
    int currentMonth = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

    // move month ahead
    currentMonth++;
    // check if has not exceeded threshold of december

    if(currentMonth > Calendar.DECEMBER){
        // alright, reset month to jan and forward year by 1 e.g fro 2013 to 2014
        currentMonth = Calendar.JANUARY;
        // Move year ahead as well
        cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, cal.get(Calendar.YEAR)+1);
    }

    // reset calendar to next month
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, currentMonth);
    // get the maximum possible days in this month
    int maximumDay = cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

    // set the calendar to maximum day (e.g in case of fEB 28th, or leap 29th)
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, maximumDay);
    long thenTime = cal.getTimeInMillis(); // this is time one month ahead



    return (thenTime); // this is what you set as trigger point time i.e one month after

}