Setting up alarm for X amount of times

Question

I have a question about alarms. Is it possible to set up an alarm so that it repeats X amount of times only? Like currently in the google docs, the setRepeating() repeats forever like shown in the code below:

 manager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,timeInMillis, interval, pendingIntent);

where interval let's say is weekly in millis: interval = 604800000;

How do I make it so that it repeats only eg weekly for 3 times only? So something to set alarm X amount of times where X can be 3 or 5 or whatever the user sets?

Answer 1

store check value in SharedPreference ( called count), when alarm fire, increase it and store back to SharedPreference. When count = the integer that user sets. You cancle alarm X and set it again, do not forget set count = 0.

let the pendingIntent forward to BroadCastReceiver. When Alarm was trigger, then OnCreate() method called. Do some stuff follow your ideal.