I want to start a project which contains a BroadcastReceiver and an Activity. The BroadcastReceiver doesn't communicate with the activity. But they share a same resource. Can i do it in only one Project (that means, i use only 1 apk to install both BroadcastReceiver and the Activity on my phone), or i have to develope them seperately in 2 projects.
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Is it possible to update a currently running activity from a BroadcastReceiver? I want to update my activity from a BroadcastReceiver that runs alongside it. When I run my app (from Eclipse), my activity starts. When the BroadcastReceiver is triggered, it currently tries to start the activity (with extras in the bundle...this is the important part), but nothing happens, presumably because the activity is already running. So my question is, how do I get the new information to my Activity (or even just tell the activity that there's new information to get if I stick the information in a database)? This seems like it should be fairly straightforward, but I'm clearly missing something.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedWhile developing an alarm based application, i have stuck in a scenario.
When my alarm is fired, i can receive the event in BroadCastReceiver::onReceive().
Within this function, i want to notify/call a function, which is located on MainActivity.
How to achieve the same?
I've developed an application that receives a Broadcast and then launches an Activity, where that Activity queries a ContentProvider which pulls information out of the DNS in real-time.
I'd like to be able to shuffle this so that instead of going:
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It goes:
CODE:.......
i.e. if the query() returns no data I want to miss out launching the activity, and allow the Broadcast message to fall through as normal.
If the query() does return data, I want that Cursor to be supplied to the Activity, so that I don't have to go and query for the data again.
In turn, the Activity has its own UI which the user needs to respond to.
I have 2 Activities that need to communicate with each other: ActivityA and ActivityB
Say that ActivityA opens ActivityB. How do I unicast a message from ActivityB to ActivityA without closing ActivityB?
Here's what I tried: setResult() - but the intent will be delivered only when ActivityB closes sendBroadcast() - but this sends the intent to everyone listening to the action.
I only want the action to reach ActivityA since it spawned ActivityB.
I tried having ActivityA registering a BroadCast receiver, but I cannot target that via Intent's SetComponentName(). startActivity() - this brings up ActivityA, which I don't want.
When i have a broadcastReceiver say android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON and i want to update the current activity's UI without creating a new activity, is there any good practice on this one?
What i know (might not be correct)
1) I can put the BroadcastReceiver in the same class as the activity and call the updateUI function after certain activity
2) Create a ContentObserver?
3) Communicate to a service created by the activity, use aidl. (I dont know how to get the current service if its registered from an activity)
4) Create a custom filter on the broadcastReceiver located on the same class as the activity, and use context.sendBroadcast(msg of custom filter) and in the custom filter call updateUI (same as one but more generic?)
The final flow is it would come from a BroadcastReceiver and ends up updating the UI without renewing the activity (unless the activity is dead?)
Kindly provide links/source code on your how you tackle this kind of problem.
Does anyone know how I might go about accessing an Activity in an application from a BroadcastReceiver (in the same application)?
(I have some state information in the Activity I'd like to update)
I'm not sure if there is a best practice for it.
Maybe it's easy, but I couldn't really figure this out right so far... I got a BroadcastReceiver waiting to get triggered by the AlarmMangager - this works fine.
Now: because the event, if it occurs, needs to refresh some elements on screen of the main Activity, I would like to send an Intent from that background BroadcastReceiver to my Activity - but only if it is currently in the foreground, aka active.
If it is not running or not visible, I don't care - and the last thing I want to do is start the Activity by my intent! I handle repainting of the views in my onResume method, so I don't care at all.
EDIT: my BroadcastReceiver is waiting for alarms that must be notified to the user. So, it must be there and declared in the manifest. The problem is: it will have to decide whether the mentioned Activity is currently up in front or not.
I'm developing alarm application. I'm using listview on activity to reserve alarm. after application finish BroadcastReceiver.onReceive() method, I want to remove check of list. But i dont know how to access to activity.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got an Android application which needs to be woken up sporadically throughout the day.To do this, I'm using the AlarmManager to set up a PendingIntent and have this trigger a BroadcastReceiver. This BroadcastReceiver then starts an Activity to bring the UI to the foreground.All of the above seems to work, in that the Activity launches itself correctly; but I'd like the BroadcastReceiver to notify the Activity that it was started by the alarm (as opposed to being started by the user). To do this I'm trying, from the onReceive() method of the BroadcastReceiver to set a variable in the extras bundle of the intent,Can anyone tell me what's different about passing a bundle from a BroadcastReceiver to an Activity, as opposed to passing the bundle from an Activity to a BroadcastReceiver?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to get a UI to present itself when an incoming SMS happens. When that happens, I would like to present a UI to the user.
I have a BroadcastReceiver class that listens to the SMS_RECEIVED event. I also have an Activity class that is capable of displaying the needed UI when the event happens.
The questions is: How do I start the activity from within the onReceive method of BroadcastReceiver?
I know others have done this but I can't seem to find any resources that illustrates how.
I am writing my own sms receiver app and i want it to catch all the sms using a broadcast receiver. This on its own, is no problem, but i want to be able to stop the message being passed to the messaging app.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy use case is to launch one of settings app screen when I receive a certain event in idle state. For which, I added my new intent to PhoneAppBroadcastReceiver() in PhoneApp.java (looks like this receiver handles the misc intents) But when i call startActivity(), The phone seems to go into a panic ex. startActivity(new Intent(this, NetworkSetting.class)); My questions are is this the right approach to go about ? If so 1. How can I launch the activity inside of broadcastReceiver? secondly 2. How do i verify if the activity i want to start is already started?Can the NEW_TASK_LAUNCH be used to verify this ,
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have written an application to read all incoming SMS and if the SMS contains certain string, I will also send a copy of the message to my another phone for backup purposes.
I used the reference from the following website:
http://www.anddev.org/novice-tutorials-f8/recognize-react-on-incoming...
It uses BroadcastReceiver to get the incoming SMS, but when I tried to send it using the following method:
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It always crashes. Any idea how to resolve it? Is it because of using BroadcastReceiver.
I have an app widget that extends an AppWidgetProvider to create an application widget.
I would like the application widget to be idle until an activity in my app runs; actually when a service in my app is started.
Once that service is started, I need to "wake up" the application widget and communicate with it (i.e. tell it things to display).
So I see that AppWidgetProvider simply extends BroadcastReceiver -- so does that mean:
1. I need to call registerReceiver in my service and tell it to filter for certain kinds of events?
2. Can I even do #1, or will an AppWidgetProvider *only* accept ACTION_APPWIDGET_* intents?
3. If #2 is correct, how can I communicate or "wake up" / trigger the application widget?
4. Can I send events to my app widget using sendBroadcast( intent )?
Then, my app widget has some buttons on it, I need to send an intent back to the application (or service). I see you can do that with PendingIntents, but if i send the different intents it to the same Activity, it seems to re-use the first created pending intent.
Can I Receive a Broadcast from a Service? It seem I have to extend BroadcastReceiver to receive broadcasts but I'm already extending Service and I can't extend 2 classes. Do I set up an additional Activity to receive broadcasts and then just pass stuff to the already running Service. And if so, how to I pass additional info to an existing Service? Is there a better way?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can I best implement a BroadcastReceiver that may need to "consume" the current broadcast (via abortBroadcast()), but it first needs to perform some non-trivial work to determine whether or not the broadcast should be consumed.
The problem is that if the non-trivial work takes more than 10 seconds then the receiver is considered to be blocked by the system and may be killed.
I realise that long-running operations should not be performed in the onReceive() method of receivers for that very reason, and should instead be handed-off to an appropriate service. However, if the current broadcast is to be consumed, then the abortBroadcast() method must be called within the onReceive() method before it returns. If some processing is required to determine whether the current broadcast should be consumed or not, then things can get tricky.
I'm developing an app that can consume some (but not all) inbound SMS messages. For any given SMS message it will need to perform some analysis based on the sender's phone number and the message body (including database lookups) in order to determine if the message is one that is relevant to the app or not. In the vast majority of cases this will take less than 10 seconds, but it is possible that it could take longer on rare occasions.
To get around this I'm considering the following solution.
1. On receiving a broadcast for a received SMS, my receiver starts a background thread to perform the required analysis and handle the message if appropriate. 2. The main thread (currenly executing the onReceive() method) waits until either the background thread has finished its work, or 8 seconds have elapsed, whichever occurs first. 3. If the background thread finished within the allotted time (which should happen most of the time), then the main thread calls abortBroadcast() or not, (depending on the result of the analysis) and returns normally. 4. If the background thread did NOT finish within 8 seconds, then the main thread stops the background thread and instead starts a service to perform the work. In this case it does NOT call abortBroadcast(), and the broadcast will be passed to other receivers (eg the default messaging app) regardless of whether or not the service ends up handling the message. While not an ideal outcome, it is acceptable.
I'd like my app to catch incoming SMS messages. There are a few examples of this around. Looks like we just need to do this:
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Is this correct? I'm sending my phone some sms messages, but the log statement never gets printed. I do have some other SMS applications installed on the phone, which display a popup when the sms is received - are they somehow blocking the intent from getting passed down to my app, they are just consuming it completely?
I have seen several examples on how to implement a BroadCastReceiver, but how should I implement a Service who has to react on some pending Intent (for example incoming phone call)...Actually I was wondering about the same "prbolem" but in an Activity..You obviously have a class which extends a Service 9or an Activity) so it cannot also extend BroadCastReceiver...It looks like we cannot make "platform-awar" services and/or Activties ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a BroadcastReceiver set up in my Android application that receives SMS receive events. This works fine, but I want to be able to toggle SMS receiving on and off by toggling the BroadcastReceiver on and off. Because if I have a simple boolean inside the onReceive method, even if the SMS receiving is off, my application will start.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create an application that can use the android as a fax machine, IE Send a picture as a fax or receive a fax and save as a picture. So far I'm starting from the ground up and making sure I can intercept a call at the users discretion. I have an Receiver registered in the Manifest of my program with a filter of Phone_State which flags when the state has changed(IE incoming call).
So on my BroadcastReceiver I'm trying to have an AlertDialog popup prompting the user to either accept as fax or call but the AlertDialog seems to throw a android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException Error when it has an incoming call. My code is just simple an onReceive(context arg0, intent arg1) and I pass the arg0 to the AlertDialog...
The full error message is below
CODE:.............
From what I have seen in the AlertDialog code, it passes the context as well as a Window and WindowManager, which I believe is why it's crashing, is there a better way or something else I should be using which might overlay the call screen?
I got back to the widget development after upgrading to the latest SDK and all of the sudden my widget is failing on startup with this message:
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5296): java.lang.RuntimeException:
Unable to start receiver topjob.widget.SearchWidget:
java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial:
attempt to change component state from pid=5296, uid=10057, package uid=10048
Here's two lines of code where exception occurs:..................
I have this Broadcast receiver registered code...
but when the line reaches context.startActivity(intentalarm);
the application crashes
may be it is where we pass first parameter to Intent, I'm not clear about.
My application used to start when phone start by broadcast reciever. After that i used to execute some code after every 10 seconds. Using handler but after some time it used to stop execution. Can some one tell me what can be reason behind it ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to stop BroadcastReceiver after some time / after some work.
How to stop BroadcastReceiver after some point from service/ activity ?
I have a problem when using database in broadcastReceiver.
I can't open the database created in the activity. e.g: malwareDB = new PackageDB(this);
The eclipse give me the error that "PackageDB(this)" is undefined.
It seems that the BroadcastReceiver doesn't support the database?
Do have have to access the data base in the "service"?
Here is the definition of "PackageDB":
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I am trying to start a service from the BroadcastReceiver, but I keep getting the startService line marked as an error:
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My current problem is that I don't receive an intent. I have a BroadcastReceiver and defined in the AndroidManifest.xml file that it also should receive intents with these actions.
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