Bringing My Alarm To The Front

I had a few problems with my alarm that are in a another thread here if anyone could help but anyway here is a new question. If I set an alarm using my app, say for 5 minutes from

Solution 1:

Don't move your activity to the front automatically. It's as annoying as a pop-up ad! Do you really want to try to interrupt the user who's trying to look up a phone number?

Instead, use a Service. When you want to tell the user something, post a status bar notification. You can set up the notification to bring up an Activity when the notification is clicked.

Most alarms are implemented in a Service.

Solution 2:

Have you looked into the AlarmManager? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html. I've used it in the future to fire Intents for Notifications. The Notification can then open an Activity for the user when they select the Notification from the Android Notification Bar.