Friday, April 22, 2011

Send Notification inside background Thread

In my old exercise, it's shown how to "Start a service to send Notification". It's modified to send the notification inside a background thread here.

package com.exercise.AndroidThreadNotification;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;

public class AndroidThreadNotification extends Activity {

BackgroundThread backgroundThread;
Handler backgroundHandler;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}

@Override
protected void onStart() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onStart();
backgroundThread = new BackgroundThread();
backgroundThread.setRunning(true);
backgroundThread.start();
}

@Override
protected void onStop() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onStop();
boolean retry = true;
backgroundThread.setRunning(false);

while(retry){
try {
backgroundThread.join();
retry = false;
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

}

public class BackgroundThread extends Thread {
boolean running = false;
final static String ACTION = "NotifyServiceAction";
NotificationManager notificationManager;
Notification myNotification;
private final String myBlog = "http://android-er.blogspot.com/";
private static final int MY_NOTIFICATION_ID=1;

void setRunning(boolean b){
running = b;
}

@Override
public synchronized void start() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.start();
notificationManager =
(NotificationManager)getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
}

@Override
public void run() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
while(running){
try {
sleep(10000); //send notification in every 10sec.
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

// Send Notification
myNotification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon,
"Notification!",
System.currentTimeMillis());
Context context = getApplicationContext();
String notificationTitle = "Exercise of Notification!";
String notificationText = "http://android-er.blogspot.com/";
Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(myBlog));
PendingIntent pendingIntent
= PendingIntent.getActivity(getBaseContext(),
0, myIntent,
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
myNotification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;
myNotification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
myNotification.setLatestEventInfo(context,
notificationTitle,
notificationText,
pendingIntent);
notificationManager.notify(MY_NOTIFICATION_ID, myNotification);
}
}
}
}


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