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Testing that Android AlarmManager has an alarm set.

Just a small post from my recent experience - how to test that AlarmManager has an alarm set. The first approach is to do it programmatically - let's assume we registered our alarm as below: Intent intent = new Intent("com.my.package.MY_UNIQUE_ACTION"); PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis()); calendar.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 1); AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), 1000 * 60, pendingIntent);  And now to check that registered above alarm is active we have to do the following: boolean alarmUp = (PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, new Intent("com.my.package.MY_UNIQUE_ACTION"), PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_