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Elis Hazelton
Elis Hazelton

Reputation: 25

Receiver incorrectly registered? Android, Kotlin

I'm building an Android app in Kotlin. The app contains a stopwatch. I have a service class (TimerService) that correctly executes task every second (log appears):

private inner class MyTask(private var time: Double) : TimerTask() {
    override fun run(){
        Log.d("SERVICE", time.toString())
        val intent = Intent(TIMER_UPADATED)
        time++
        intent.putExtra(TIME_EXTRA, time)
        sendBroadcast(intent)
    }
}

However, the receiver (below) doesn't receive anything (log doesn't appear):

registerReceiver(
            timeReceiver, IntentFilter(TimerService.TIMER_UPADATED)
        )

private val timeReceiver: BroadcastReceiver = object : BroadcastReceiver() {
        override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent) {
            time = intent.getDoubleExtra(TimerService.TIME_EXTRA, 0.0)
            Log.d("RECEIVER", time.toString())
        }
    }

I think the receiver might be incorrectly registered. According to tutorials this should work:

registerReceiver(
            timeReceiver, IntentFilter(TimerService.TIMER_UPADATED)
        )

But this implementation of registerReceiver seems to be deprecated now and from debugging it seems like this is the correct version:

registerReceiver(
        requireContext(), updateTime, IntentFilter(TimerService.TIMER_UPADATED),
        ContextCompat.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED
    )

The latter doesn't receive.

SDK in build.gradle file:

android {
    namespace = "com.myapp.myapp"
    compileSdk = 34

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId = "com.myapp.myapp"
        minSdk = 33
        targetSdk = 34

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (1)

jokuskay
jokuskay

Reputation: 959

Try setting a package name to your broadcast intent like:

val intent = Intent(TIMER_UPADATED)
time++
intent.putExtra(TIME_EXTRA, time)
intent.setPackage(packageName) // <-- add this line
sendBroadcast(intent)

Upvotes: 0

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