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I'm refactoring some code so that my app will pull data from a website once a day at a given time. From my research, it seems like AlarmManager is the most appropriate approach. The tutorial I have been following is: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-fundamentals-downloading-data-with-services/ So far, AlarmManager and the BroadcastReceiver seem to be working, however the Service never seems to start (ie. onStartCommand doesn't seem to be called) Here are the important snippets of the code I have so far: MyActivity.java private void setRecurringAlarm(Context context) { Calendar updateTime = Calendar.getInstance(); updateTime.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); updateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 20); updateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30); Intent downloader = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class); downloader.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, downloader, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT); AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); // should be AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY (but changed to 15min for testing) alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, updateTime.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_FIFTEEN_MINUTES, pendingIntent); Log.d("MyActivity", "Set alarmManager.setRepeating to: " + updateTime.getTime().toLocaleString()); } AlarmReceiver.java public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Intent dailyUpdater = new Inten

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