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Jakub
Jakub

Reputation: 2141

How to push intent

I want to "push" the intent Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED in a service in onStart

I tried this:

Intent batteryChanged = new Intent();
batteryChanged.setAction(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED);
startActivity(batteryChanged);

How can I update the widget when it starts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 297

Answers (1)

Squonk
Squonk

Reputation: 48871

You can't send that Intent yourself (see the excerpt below from the docs explaining it is a system intent). If your app needs to know when the battery state has changed you should be using a BroadcastReceiver to listen for when the system updates it.

public static final String ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED

...

This is a protected intent that can only be sent by the system.

Constant Value: "android.intent.action.BATTERY_CHANGED"

Upvotes: 1

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