I want to send users of my android application a simple daily reminder, Do I have to use a push notification service or is there an alternative?

Question

To be a little bit more specific, I want to know if for example I wanted to teach someone how to take care of a pet, I would like my application to send them daily a reminder that they have to feed their pet or take it out for a walk. I have been reading about GCM and what i managed to understand is that you would need a server side to manage these, but that is not a resource available to me (and even if it were I would have no idea how to set it up). Would I have to set up GCM for this or is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

You could use the AlarmManager : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html

It enables you to do something at a certain point in the future.