Android: How to send a push notification after a certain time of inactivity?

Question

I want to send a push notification from my app if it was inactive (not used on this device) for a certain time of inactivity (for example one week).

I know how to send push notifications but I do not know how to add the time variable.

Hope you have some ideas!

Do you mean a local notification, or do you need to use actual push notifications? — jprofitt, Nov 29 '13 at 19:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '13 at 20:09

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I see two possible solutions:
1. Setup an alarm using AlarmManager every time the user exits your application and cancel it whenever your application starts.
2. In case your application sends http requests to a server, or a server gets notified, in any way, when the user uses your app, detect the inactivity in the server side and send a cloud message when the app has been inactive for x amount of time.

answered Nov 29 '13 at 20:09

Thomas Kaliakos

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Second one is better option. As first one keeps the processor busy. – Darpan Nov 29 '13 at 20:30
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I will setup a rasperry pi as server to realize this, because I also want to use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). Thank you! – Mokkapps Dec 07 '13 at 18:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 19:52

you have two solution to implented : -local solution by using "service" runing in background in all the time which detect the local time (but this solution can consume your batterie) -extrenal solution = by push notification of GCM (this solution depends the network connection )

Android: How to send a push notification after a certain time of inactivity?

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