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I've read from the Android documentation (Android newbie here), but generally a lot of articles and questions on how to get current foreground activities (eg. here, here, and here) and how to get commands running every X minutes/seconds (eg. here, here, here, and here), but I can't seem to manage to combine the two in between button clicks.

The purpose of this task is, once the user clicks a Start button, the current activity is displayed on screen, through a Toast, every 10 seconds. Once the user clicks Stop, the Toasts stop popping up.

I managed to get the current activity be displayed every 10 seconds by using the following code: 

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Intent i = new Intent(context, SimpleService.class);
PendingIntent pintent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, i, 0);
AlarmManager alarm = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
// Start every 10 seconds
alarm.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), 10*1000, pintent);

where SimpleService is a Service that contains the following code in its onStartCommand

Context context = getApplicationContext();
ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) this.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE); 
// get the info from the currently running task
List< ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo > taskInfo = am.getRunningTasks(1);
String curAct = taskInfo.get(0).topActivity.getPackageName(); 
Toast.makeText(context, curAct, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

However, the moment I try to put my lovely 10-second runner in between onClick functions, this line gives me an error under getService:

PendingIntent pintent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, i, 0);

Saying The method getService(Context, int, Intent, int) in the type PendingIntent is not applicable to the arguments (new View.OnClickListener(){}, int, Intent, int).

I get the same thing if I try to put the ActivityManager in Runnables and other methods, but they never work if the function is in the ClickListener (always same error).

What should I do? How could I get the Toasts to appear every 10 seconds with the current foreground activity after the user clicks the start, and stop it after the user clicks the stop?

Thank you

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Instead of using this in

PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, i, 0);

create a private member of your activity for context like this:

private Context myContext;

in onCreate instantiate it with:

myContext= getApplicationContext();

and then use this context in getService:

PendingIntent.getService(myContext, 0, i, 0);
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    Great! The reason is that reference to this is out of scope in new View.OnClickListener, so you need to remember it as a private member to the class – gile Jan 08 '14 at 08:25