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Lupiyo
Lupiyo

Reputation: 169

Doubts about Intents and BroadcastReceiver

Im quite new on Android programming, so I have some basic doubts.

There is an App here that do not have the BroadcastReceiver, but I used other class instead, and I am sure that it works properly.

I read in some topics, that i need to register It in manifest, but I have no clue how to do It; and I got confused about com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND and etc, I do not know how to set it.

Question: Can I ask for someone explain to me, in simple way, what I need to do to my method be executed while the app is closed, AND, how i register it on manifest?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (2)

yshahak
yshahak

Reputation: 5096

BroadcastTeceiver as the name imply is component that could receive data that someone send via Intents. The sender could be the system, other App or your App itself.

There are to ways to regiester BroadcastReceiver:

  1. In the manifest by exlixit the Intent you want to listen.

  2. In code by give it Intent_filter programmatically.

Upvotes: 0

sonic
sonic

Reputation: 1904

Send an Intent is the way of Android of telling to everyone that some event occured.

For instance where your device receive a call an Intent is broadcast. But to be specific to some event every Intent has an action. For instance the Intent broascast when you receive a SMS has the "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" action.

In your AndroidManifest.xml you can register objects for specific intents. You can register Activity, Service and BroadcastReceiver.

To register a BroadcastReceiver to "receive sms action" you do the following in your manifest :

<receiver android:name="your.receiver.class">
     <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

This means that every time an Intent with the specified action is fired, it will be pass to your receiver. This means that his onReceive method will be called with the intent as param.

So to create some code that will be executed will your app is closed, follow this steps :

  1. Create a class that extends BroadcastReceiver.

  2. Put your code in the onReceive method. This method will be call every time your receiver receive an intent.

  3. Register your receiver for the desired action in your AndroidManifest.xml file.

Upvotes: 1

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