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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 145

Finishing an Activity from a Broadcast Receiver

I have an Activity that I display as modeless when the phone rings (over the phone app). I would like to finish the Activity when either of the following events occur. The first is if I touch anywhere outside the Activity (this is not a problem), the second is if the ringing stops. I am listening for IDLE_STATE in the broadcast receiver but I am not sure on how to call the finish on the activity when I see it. The receiver is not registered by the activity but by the Manifest.xml

Upvotes: 11

Views: 15837

Answers (5)

adil khan
adil khan

Reputation: 1

I used this code to solve my problem. finish is the method of Activity, so call Activity and context like:

if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_IDLE)) {
     Log.e(TAG, "Inside EXTRA_STATE_IDLE");
     ((Activity) arg0).finish();
}

Upvotes: 0

Ramapati Maurya
Ramapati Maurya

Reputation: 664

After a long R&D over internet i have solved my problem. The below code is helpful if you start an activity from broadcast receiver and clear all activity stack instance.

 @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (drawer.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) {
            drawer.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
        } else {
            moveTaskToBack(true);
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Vipin Sahu
Vipin Sahu

Reputation: 1451

write the code in your receiving broadcast now this will send another broad cast with the intent named "com.hello.action"

Intent local = new Intent();
local.setAction("com.hello.action");
sendBroadcast(local);

Now catch this intent in the activity with you want to finish it and then call the super.finish() on the onReceive method of your receiver like this 

public class fileNamefilter extends Activity {
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();

    filter.addAction("com.hello.action");
    registerReceiver(receiver, filter);

    }
BroadcastReceiver receiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        finish();

    }
};

public void finish() {
    super.finish();
};
}

this will finish the activity

Upvotes: 20

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 145

I actually ended up adding a PhoneStateListener in the Activity to listen for IDLE_STATE.

Upvotes: 0

Cristian
Cristian

Reputation: 200080

What if you register another broadcast receiver from the activity. Then, when you want to kill it, send a broadcast message from the broadcast receiver that you mentioned.

Upvotes: 0

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