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Ajay Singh
Ajay Singh

Reputation: 1621

USB Connection notification

can we receive notification if user connected there phone through USB cable.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10640

Answers (4)

CatalinM
CatalinM

Reputation: 580

A number of years later... this might help someone that came looking like I did. Since Honeycomb, there are two actions one can listen for USB_DEVICE_ATTACHED and USB_DEVICE_DETACHED.

Upvotes: 0

JohnnyLinTW
JohnnyLinTW

Reputation: 176

Actually there is one broadcast event; if you turned on Debug in your application settings, your will see a bug on your notification bar when you plugged usb. Following is the sample how it works;

public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    String action = intent.getAction();
    // UsbManager.ACTION_USB_STATE -> "android.hardware.usb.action.USB_STATE" actually
    if (action.equals(UsbManager.ACTION_USB_STATE)) {
        Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
        // UsbManager.USB_CONNECTED -> "connected" actually
        usbConnected = extras.getBoolean(UsbManager.USB_CONNECTED);
        ...

You can find this at framework/base/service/java/com/android/server/NotificationManagerService.java. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 5

Team Pannous
Team Pannous

Reputation: 1084

Since: API Level 5 An activity to run when device is inserted into a car dock. Used with ACTION_MAIN to launch an activity. For more information, see UiModeManager. Constant Value: "android.intent.category.CAR_DOCK" public static final String CATEGORY_CAR_MODE

Since: API Level 8 Used to indicate that the activity can be used in a car environment. Constant Value: "android.intent.category.CAR_MODE"

Upvotes: 1

Will Tate
Will Tate

Reputation: 33509

Ajay,

I wasn't able to find anything specific to just "USB Connected," but there are a few Broadcast Actions that may be of interest in this case depending on what you are trying to accomplish:

  • ACTION_MEDIA_SHARED: External media is unmounted because it is being shared via USB mass storage.
  • ACTION_UMS_CONNECTED: The device has entered USB Mass Storage mode. This is used mainly for the USB Settings panel.
  • ACTION_UMS_DISCONNECTED: The device has exited USB Mass Storage mode. This is used mainly for the USB Settings panel.

There doesn't seem to be a Broadcast Action specific to USB simply being plugged in, you could also try doing something with:

But this would go off for both USB connected to a computer and USB connect ONLY to a power source...

Interestingly, I also found this LINK simply stating that there was no Broadcast Action for "USB Connected".

You may be out of luck in this case :-\

Upvotes: 4

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