Android alarm not cancelling

Question

I am in the main activity. There is a Login button bLogin. When it is pressed, a Logout button is displayed bLogout. The onClick methods for the two buttons are as follows:

bLogin.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        llLogin.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        llLogout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 327,
            new Intent(getApplicationContext(), AlarmReceiver.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        AlarmManager manager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        manager.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis(), interval, pendingIntent);
    }
});

bLogout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        llLogout.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        llLogin.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 327,
            new Intent(getApplicationContext(), AlarmReceiver.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        AlarmManager manager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        manager.cancel(pendingIntent);

        boolean alarmUp = (PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 327,
            new Intent(getApplicationContext(), AlarmReceiver.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE) != null);
        if(!alarmUp){
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "up", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
});

As can be seen in the code above, when bLogin is pressed, I set the alarm, and when bLogout is pressed, I cancel the alarm.

alarmUp is used to check if the alarm is set. But the problem is that the alarm is never cancelled because the Toast at the end is never displayed. Also, the work that should be done by the app when the alarm is not set is never done on pressing Logout.

I can't seem to figure out what might be wrong. The PendingIntents are the same for both when the alarm is set, and when it is cancelled.

Answer 1

Don't know what's wrong with your code, but if you want to cancel the pending intent you can use

PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getActivity(), 327, pendingIntent,
                    PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT).cancel();

to cancel the pending intent. I think it'll do the same think as cancelling your AlarmManager. Although you might need to change the way you check the way your alarm is set.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You aren't cancelling the PendingIntent. When you call

manager.cancel(pendingIntent) 

you are cancelling the alarm. This doesn't cancel the PendingIntent. The PendingIntent still exists. So when you then call

boolean alarmUp = (PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 327,
        new Intent(getApplicationContext(), AlarmReceiver.class),
        PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE) != null);

the PendingIntent still exists, so PendingIntent.getBroadcast() will return a non-null. result. alarmUp will always be true.

You need to cancel the PendingIntent after you cancel the alarm, like this:

pendingIntent.cancel();