This might be an old question but I came across this issue myself today and figured a way to do it:
You can use a new service which stops your service, and start that service in the desired time on a daily basis using alarm manager, like this:
Define the service which will stop your service:
package com.youractivity;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.util.Log;
public class MyServiceTerminator extends Service {
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
return Service.START_NOT_STICKY;
}
public void onCreate()
{
Intent service = new Intent(this, MyService.class);
stopService(service); //stop MyService
stopSelf(); //stop MyServiceTerminator so that it doesn't keep running uselessly
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
//TODO for communication return IBinder implementation
return null;
}
}
add the following code after the one you posted, and run the method inside your activity:
private void stopRecurringAlarm(Context context) {
Calendar updateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
updateTime.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+3"));
updateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 18);
updateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyServiceTerminator.class);
PendingIntent pintent = PendingIntent.getService(context, 1, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
AlarmManager alarms = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
alarms.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,updateTime.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pintent);
}
this way the service will be scheduled to start as you posted above, and scheduled to stop at 6 as shown in the code I posted.