broadcastreceiver - Android cannot pass intent extras though AlarmManager

Question

I am trying to put an extra message in my intent to pass to AlarmManager to be triggered at a later time. My onReceive triggers correctly but extras.getString() returns null

Setup:

public PendingIntent getPendingIntent(int uniqueRequestCode, String extra) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, ActionReceiver.class);
    intent.putExtra("EXTRA", extra);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, uniqueRequestCode,
            intent, 0);
    return pendingIntent;
}

public void setSilentLater(TimeRule timeRule) {
    boolean[] weekdays = timeRule.getReoccurringWeekdays();
    int dayOfWeek = 0;

    for (boolean day : weekdays) {
        dayOfWeek++;
        if (day == true) {
            Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

            AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) this
                    .getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

            cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, dayOfWeek);
            cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,
                    timeRule.getStartTime().get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
            cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE,
                    timeRule.getStartTime().get(Calendar.MINUTE));
            cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
            cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

            alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
                    cal.getTimeInMillis(), 3600000 * 7, getPendingIntent(0, "RINGER_OFF"));
  }
 }
}

When this triggers, message is empty:

public class ActionReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
         Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
         String message = extras.getString("EXTRA"); //empty        
         if(message == "RINGER_OFF")
         {
             AudioManager am = (AudioManager) context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
             am.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT);
         }
         else if(message == "RINGER_ON")
         {
             AudioManager am = (AudioManager) context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
             am.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_NORMAL);
         }
    }
}

Answer 1

UPDATE: Please see Vincent Hiribarren's solution

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Old Answer... Haresh's code is not the complete answer... I used a Bundle and I tried without Bundle but I got null's either way when I attempting to obtain the strings from the extra's !!

The exact problem, in your code, is with the PendingIntent !

This is wrong if you're trying to pass extra's :

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, uniqueRequestCode, intent, 0);

Because the 0 for the flags is what will cause you a headache

This is the right way to do it - specify a flag !

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, uniqueRequestCode, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

This is probably such a popular problem because Google's sample code neglected to include Extra's in an Alarm.