Can you trigger a phone alarm?

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Hi, is it possible to trigger a phone alarm?
I want to make an app to keep track of my medication and make it possible to set an alarm time, for when I need to take my medication.
Is it possible to set a phone alarm and even when I close the app and remove it from the background, the alarm will still go off?
Or does it only work when the app is still running in the background?
I hope my question and what I would like to do is clear and hope someone can answer this.
I would like to make this app for my android phone.
Many thanks in advance for your reply(s)

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I need to create the same mechanism, but for another feature.

The app I’m making is to help people in their daily prayers; for people who don’t have time to stop for a few minutes to pray.

So I already have the audio files recorded with all the necessary prayers and this allows a person to follow those prayers through these audios, even if the person is driving or what is more common, doing physical activities.

But I’d also like to implement the possibility of a user-defined alarm that lets you know the times of each prayer and I still haven’t figured out how to do it.

I will follow your post closely.

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These are the permissions that can be granted during the build process. It does not look like what you seek is available. A work around maybe push notifications sent from firebase cloud functions. Hopefully someone from the team comes with better insight.

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Thanks for your reply to my question. I was already a little bit afraid that what I would like to do would be difficult or not possible. I already had checked with several other no-code / low-code platforms and there it was not possible. Push notifications are one “workaround”. I will check more about that. But if you do it in combination with Firebase, do you need to be connected to the internet for it to work? I need to check it out further. Again, thanks for your reply.

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Hi! Unfortunately phone alarms are not possible that I know of (not sure if they are at all), but push notifications are definitely one way to go about it. But you do need to be connected to internet to get push notifications from Firebase etc.

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Hi,
Thanks for your thoughts.
I already had figured out, that so far, I think, no no-code platform can trigger the phone alarm.
And push notifications were my next thought. :smiley:

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