Learning Android™ Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications

Showing Notifications at Regular Intervals

In the application you want to check the time passed to notify the user at regular intervals just as you did with the vibrate function. Here’s how.

1. Open the TimerActivity.java file in the Activity package. In the run method of the UpdateTimer class, modify the code:

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if (timer.isRunning() && settings.isVibrateOn(activity)) {    vibrateCheck();}

Replace it with the code shown in Listing 5.25.

Listing 5.25 The Modified if Statement

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if (timer.isRunning()) {    if (settings.isVibrateOn(activity)) {        vibrateCheck();    }    notifyCheck();}

Run Quick fix to add the missing notifyCheck method.

2. Open the strings.xml resource file, and add ...