Pending intent is not working

Question

I am using the pending intent in activity.

Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyActivity.class);

    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 34433,
            intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
    AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
    alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
            System.currentTimeMillis() + (5000), pendingIntent);

here i am going from one activity(MainActivity) to another activity(MyActivity). but it is not working.

if i try to do it with simple Intent then it works fine.

Answer 1

You have requested a PendingIntent to start a BroadcastReceiver, but you are trying to start an Activity. This can't work.

If you want to start an Activity, instead of this:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 34433,
        intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

do this:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 34433,
        intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

Answer 2

You can also use broadcast receiver with PendingIntent to start another activity.

create another class for example receiver as sub class of the BroadcastReceiver

public class receiver extends BroadcastReceiver {


     @Override
     public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) 
     {   
        // code to start another activity
         Intent intent = new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), MyActivity.class);
         intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
         context.startActivity(intent);
     }
  }

and define MyActivity as receiver in android menifest file and in main activity change this code MyActivity.class to receiver.class

Intent intent = new Intent(this, receiver.class);

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 34433,
        intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
        System.currentTimeMillis() + (5000), pendingIntent);