I hope you aren't writing constants into real code like that. :}

For changing the extras -- you need to use cancel, and this will result in a
new PendingIntent that you need to send to the notification manager.  As of
cupcake you can alternatively use the new FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Rob Franz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually it looks like
> PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0,
> intent, 0x10000000);
>
> ...works for me (0x10000000 represents FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT).  I can verify
> that the appropriate extras data makes it to the intent.  Hope this helps.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Rob Franz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm running into the same thing - sending multiple PIs with the extras
>> data changing each time.  If I send two PIs, I get the first PI extra
>> data.  I'm glad someone else ran into this, because I was going crazy
>> trying to find out why my stuff wasn't working.
>>
>> Seeing a couple of different opinions here... what's the Google-
>> preferred way to do it?  I'm in the US on TMobile so I believe it's
>> RC33 that I've got.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 7:08 pm, "info+farm" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Thank you for your detailed answer Blake B.,
>> >
>> > First of all I understood that different Extras are not act as a
>> > difference on PendingIntent comparison.
>> >
>> > In the first option assigning a stub data element seems reasonable but
>> > I did not like the approach to put not only irrelevant but also not
>> > necessary data on each intent call to distinguish them.
>> >
>> > With the second approach, assigning FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT flag to the
>> > PendingIntent worked well on button calls but did not work on
>> > notification calls. I received "Sending contentIntent failed:
>> > android.app.PendingIntent$CanceledException" error in logcat on each
>> > different PendingIntent start. I have seen a bug report is made about
>> > this issue(#13) on android-astrid.
>> > In the issue, it is said that although the javadoc says requestCode is
>> > not used, the real OS code consider the value specified there. Then, I
>> > used the requestCodes to distinguish the PendingIntent starts.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to get information from the API builders, what will be
>> > the purpose of the requestCode parameter on PendingIntent creation in
>> > the future? The reason is I want to be able to sure that my code won't
>> > stuck at that time of API change.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > info+farm
>> >
>> > On Mar 25, 5:01 pm, "Blake B." <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > To correct my previous statement, PendingIntents are cached by the
>> > > system, not Intents.  The note about how to differentiate Intents
>> > > still holds though, so if you need to replace a current PendingIntent
>> > > with a new PI that has a new Intent that only differs by its Extras,
>> > > be sure to use the flag FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT so that the cached PI is
>> > > not used.
>> >
>> > > From Intent.filterEquals(o):
>> > >     Returns true if action, data, type, class, and categories are the
>> > > same.  <== note does not include Extras
>> >
>> > > From PendingIntents javadoc:
>> >
>> > >  * <p>A PendingIntent itself is simply a reference to a token
>> > > maintained by
>> > >  * the system describing the original data used to retrieve it.  This
>> > > means
>> > >  * that, even if its owning application's process is killed, the
>> > >  * PendingIntent itself will remain usable from other processes that
>> > >  * have been given it.  If the creating application later re-retrieves
>> > > the
>> > >  * same kind of PendingIntent (same operation, same Intent action,
>> > > data,
>> > >  * categories, and components, and same flags), it will receive a
>> > > PendingIntent
>> > >  * representing the same token if that is still valid, and can thus
>> > > call
>> > >  * {...@link #cancel} to remove it.
>> >
>> > > On Mar 25, 7:48 am, "Blake B." <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > > Intents are cached by the system, and two Intents are not
>> > > > differentiated by their Extras.  So your two intents look like the
>> > > > same Intent and the second one is being tossed out.  You must differ
>> > > > Intents by their Action/Data/Category.  I will sometimes use the
>> Data
>> > > > field to hold a simple ID that is not really a URI to make two
>> intents
>> > > > appear different.  Look at the code for Intent.equals() I believe,
>> and
>> > > > you will see that Extras are not considered.
>> >
>> > > > On Mar 24, 12:47 pm, "info+farm" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > Are not Google developers looking into this forum anymore?
>> >
>> > > > > Then, I will be missing the detailed answers.
>> >
>> > > > > Regards,
>> > > > > info+farm
>> >
>> > > > > On Mar 24, 3:17 pm, "info+farm" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > > Hello Mr. Murphy,
>> >
>> > > > > > I searched for it before sending my post and looked at
>> >
>> > > > > >
>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>> > > > > > andhttp://
>> groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>> >
>> > > > > > But both of them could not find the answer to the problem.
>> >
>> > > > > > I am afraidPendingIntenthas different Intent
>> initialization(start
>> > > > > > ()), from the normal startActivity().
>> >
>> > > > > > I am a little bit confused,
>> >
>> > > > > > Regards,
>> > > > > > info+farm
>> >
>> > > > > > On Mar 23, 11:32 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > > > info+farm wrote:
>> > > > > > > > Am I the only one who is having this problem?
>> > > > > > > > Actually, I am going to find a workaround for this problem,
>> but I
>> > > > > > > > would like to know what I am doing wrong.
>> >
>> > > > > > > I do not remember the answer, but I do know this was discussed
>> on this
>> > > > > > > list within the past few months. Search the list
>> forPendingIntentand
>> > > > > > > you will probably find it.
>> >
>> > > > > > > --
>> > > > > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
>> > > > > > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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