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kevmo314
kevmo314

Reputation: 4317

Sending extras to BroadcastReceiver

I have an Activity that runs the following code (time and interval are defined):

Intent buzzIntent = new Intent(getBaseContext(), BuzzReceiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getBaseContext(), 0, buzzIntent, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
buzzIntent.putExtra("interval", interval);
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, time, interval * 60 * 1000, pendingIntent);

and a BroadcastReceiver that has the following onReceive:

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    try {
        int interval = intent.getIntExtra("interval", -1);
        <... more code ...>
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

but the intent.getIntExtra() returns -1 (which isn't the value of interval in the Activity, I checked), so for some reason the BroadcastReceiver isn't getting the extras that I store into the intent in the Activity.

I've tried a ton of different things but nothing seems to work. Am I missing something here?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5913

Answers (3)

vivek.m
vivek.m

Reputation: 3341

Set flag FILL_IN_DATA while creating pending intent as below:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getBaseContext(), 0, buzzIntent, Intent.FILL_IN_DATA);

You should receive extras in broadcast receiver after this change.

Upvotes: 22

Jon Shemitz
Jon Shemitz

Reputation: 1265

Have you tried calling buzzIntent.putExtra() before you pass buzzIntent to PendingIntent.getBroadcast()?

Upvotes: 1

ingsaurabh
ingsaurabh

Reputation: 15267

Try following code 

Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
int interval= bundle.getInt("interval", -1);

instead of

int interval = intent.getIntExtra("interval", -1);

Upvotes: 0

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