Gil Vegliach
Gil Vegliach

Reputation: 3562

Android, find the sender of an Intent for a monitoring application

I'm developing a monitoring application for Android listening for broadcast intents: whenever some suspicious intent pattern occurs a dialog alerting the users pops up. Indeed the intents must have been triggered by the same application, to avoid useless warnings.

In general this seems not to be possible, for instance I found something here: How to find Intent source in Android? I'm asking if there is a workaround to this, for instance looking into the context or whatsoever. I really need the application name, not the just the application name to do something else.

Cheers, Gil

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3227

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006664

I'm developing a monitoring application for Android listening for broadcast intents

I sincerely hope that you fail in your quest, as this should not be possible, for obvious privacy and security reasons.

I'm asking if there is a workaround to this, for instance looking into the context or whatsoever.

AFAIK, no, short of creating your own custom firmware.

Upvotes: 2

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