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androidbroadcastreceiver
Chromium
Chromium

Reputation: 1073

Using BroadcastReceiver

I want to know whether an app can be a BroadcastReceiver and sender? Please expain with an example.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1447

Answers (3)

ccheneson
ccheneson

Reputation: 49410

If by app you mean activity, so yes you can but you will have to embed your BroadcastReceiver in your activity and register/unregister it yourself. That way, you just need to add your activity as Activity in the Manifest and you activity will be able to receive a broadcast and send broadcast as well.

I m not too sure how it behaves in term of life cycle though. You will need to look it up if it s what you want.

Upvotes: 1

Gabriel Negut
Gabriel Negut

Reputation: 13960

Yes, it can. An example can be found here.

Upvotes: 2

Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov

Reputation: 43088

Application can't be a BroadcastReceiver. BroadcastReceiver is an application component. But answer to your question is yes: you can send broadcasts from one component and receive it in another.

For ex. in activity:

Intent intent = new Intent(...);
sendBroadcast(intent);

In receiver:

 @Override
 public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
  // here is your intent
 }

Upvotes: 2

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