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MLQ
MLQ

Reputation: 13511

How to get the name or type of the Intent fired from onReceive()

I need to create a BroadcastReceiver that listens for when the the phone receives or makes a call, so I can take note of when it started and when it ended. I realized that the two receivers will look almost the same so instead of creating two separate BroadcastReceivers for incoming and for outgoing calls, I can just create one for both and make my actions depend on what event was fired.

I registered intent-filters for android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE and android.intent.action.NEW_OUTGOING_CALL in the manifest, but how do I find out from onReceive() what kind of Intent was fired?

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();

    // get the intent fired--incoming or outgoing call?
    // then, save it in a variable and perform corresponding actions
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3856

Answers (3)

LuminiousAndroid
LuminiousAndroid

Reputation: 1577

You can also do one thing is to put one string parameter to bundle at the time of setting pending intent, that makes possible to know from which intent OnReceive calls.Also can use " intent.getAction() " Hope it helps :)

Upvotes: 0

Piyush Agarwal
Piyush Agarwal

Reputation: 25858

just use intent.getAction();

String action=intent.getAction();

if(action.equalsIgnoreCase(Intent.ACTION_NEW_OUTGOING_CALL)){

//dosomething here
}
else if(action.equalsIgnoreCase(second action)){

//do something here
}

Upvotes: 7

iTurki
iTurki

Reputation: 16398

Compare your action with intent.getAction() using equals().

Upvotes: 2

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