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ivan
ivan

Reputation: 297

Android -- Context.sendXxxAsUser -- What does "AsUser" mean?

I'm reading the documentation on developer.android.com (for example, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#sendBroadcastAsUser%28android.content.Intent,%20android.os.UserHandle%29)

And I don't understand what does sending a broadcast as a user mean. I'm reading this "the user the broadcast will be sent to" but what is the user?

If it means an app, then why sendStickyBroadcastAsUser isn't safe, it should be delivered to the application and no one else.

Please give me detailed clarification with examples. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 247

Answers (1)

2Dee
2Dee

Reputation: 8621

The user is what it says it is : a user of the device. Multi-user mode was introduced in Android 4.2, so that method is there to let you specify which user "session" the broadcast Intent will received on.

Sticky broadcasts are not safe when using the multi-users mode because one user might not want his/her data shared across the device, yet sendStickyBroadcastAsUser makes the broadcast available across all users.

Upvotes: 1

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