I was just working on an application that will do stuff when a call is missed or made; and am left wondering why do you have to register a listener using a long lived background service for phone state changes instead of being able to use broadcast intents?
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I have an IntentService that broadcasts an Intent each time if finishes some work. Each broadcast Intent is identical except that it contains a Bundle with some result information from the IntentService. Evidently, having different data in the Bundle is not enough for Android to think it's a different Intent. If the IntentService broadcasts two of these Intents back-to-back, the second one is dropped as a duplicate.
I know I've read about this behavior in this forum in the past but I can't find in the documentation where this duplicate elimination logic is described in detail. Mostly, I just want to differentiate the Intents enough that they are not considered duplicates. Any pointers would be appreciated.
I need to be able to handle/catch Intents while my Activity is closed. So I am looking at either a Service or a BroadcastReceiver. Is it possible to "receive" intents to a service itself? I tried to search, but could not find anything helpful. With a BroadcastReceiver, I am not exactly sure how that works outside of an Activity. Does it depend on the Activity being open/running? Can it run by itself?
Let's say that my Activity is killed by Android(or a task killer app), does the BroadcastReceiver still receive intents and process them? I have used a BroadcastReceiver as a widget, but I do not want to use a widget this time. My goal is to have the user open the Activity to set some options. From there, they would be able to close the Activity, but I would still be able to process Intents that were sent out by the system. I am still fairly new to Android development, so I could be so far away from where I need to be.
I'm trying to capture when a calendar reminder goes off. What I'm trying to do right now is use a BroadcastReceiver and receive an intent from the calendar. Is there an intent that gets broadcast when a calendar reminder goes off? If so what is its name, or where can I find it? Is there a list of all the calendar intents somewhere?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to listen for system fired Intents, specifically regarding text input, using a class extending BroadcastReceiver. I see there is an Intent called ACTION_INPUT_METHOD_CHANGED (android.intent.action.INPUT_METHOD_CHANGED) which I hope to be able to use to know when the keyboard or text input is attempted by the user. (I assume this intent will work as I can use an InputMethodManager object to handle keyboard related tasks)
My java code:
package com.BroadcastReception;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent; import android.util.Log;
public class InputMethodChangedReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context arg0, Intent arg1) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (arg1.getAction().equals("android.intent.action.INPUT_METHOD_CHANGED")) {
Log.d(this.toString(), "Event Fired");} } }
Am I right if I say that, there is no broadcast action currently for the SIM card state changes?
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sipRegistrationListener = new BroadcastReceiver(){
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
String action = intent.getAction();
if(SIPEngine.SIP_REGISTERED_INTENT.equals(action)){
Log.d("SETTINGS ", "Got REGISTERED action");
} if(SIPEngine.SIP_UNREGISTERED_INTENT.equals(action)){
Log.d("SETTINGS ", "Got UNREGISTERED action");
} } };
context.registerReceiver(sipRegistrationListener, new IntentFilter(SIPEngine.SIP_REGISTERED_INTENT));
context.registerReceiver(sipRegistrationListener, new IntentFilter(SIPEngine.SIP_UNREGISTERED_INTENT));
I get the registered Intent everytime I send it but I never get the unregistered Intent when I send it. Should I set up another Broadcast receiver for the unregistered Intent?
I'm a little confused by what I'm seeing with regards to phone state transitions via the PhoneStateListener. When I receive a call, this is what happens: (call comes in) RINGING -> IDLE (I pick up) OFFHOOK (I hang up) IDLE It's that first transition from RINGING to IDLE without any interaction from me (not ending the call, not answering the call) that confuses me. Do I really have to implement an idle counter to know that an incoming call has really ended? Seems like the reported phone state represents some sort of phone state that isn't the obvious one.Is this a bug or am I just not in tune with the paradigm here?
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View 3 Replies View Relatedtrying to create a broadcast receiver which responds to system events and change system settings. I don't need any interaction from the user so I don't need an activity and have been trying to do everything through the manifest file. I've put a log event into my onReceive method but it never logs anything so I'm presuming my method is never called. I've tried this with both the 1.5 and 1.6 SDKs. I was hoping somebody could have a look at my code please and let me know if there are any problems.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedFor applications that set the android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE permission. What is meant by "identity" in the permission description "read phone state and identity"? Users ask about this and we don't know what to tell them...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI can see that we can get a phonestate via the PhoneStateListener, but there is no way of telling the state of the call. OFFHOOK is a number of states combined into one. Is there a particular reason for this? Are we not allowed to see the correct state of a call?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI noticed in the class TelephonyManager there are CALL_STATE_IDLE, CALL_STATE_OFFHOOK adn CALL_STATE_RINGING. They seem to be used for incoming calls.What I actually want to do is to be notified when an outgoing call is made, is received, or timed out. How to do that?
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My problem is that sliding the phone open destroys/recreates the app, and I lose all my application state in the process. The same thing happens with the "back" button, but I overloaded that function on my way. Is there any way to overload the phone opening to prevent it from happening?
I want to figure out how to detect when the phone wakes up from being in the black screen mode and write a handler for that event. Is that possible? It seems like this would be something a Broadcast Receiver should handle? Or is there a better or more proper way?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was trying to root my samsng behold 2 earlier today using the command codes on theunlockr.com. I thought everything was going well as I went all the way to the last step where it rebooted my behold 2. Problem is, the phone kinda just turned off after doing the reboot command and didn't turn back on by itself (I gave it like 10 minutes). I eventually then just turned on the phone manually and noticed that everything was super laggy. Even when I used taskkiller to kill every task minus GDE, it said I only had 38MB ram available. I rebooted my phone a few times and it was laggy everytime so I decided to do a hard reset. The problem is that when I attempted the hard-reset, it will now get stuck on the samsung screen when trying to load up (stayed there for over 30 minutes). I can still enter the phone if I just start it up regularly without trying to hard-reset, but it will continue to be VERY laggy.
Is there anything I can do to restore this phone back to its original state? I was reading about using ODIN to flash it or something, but for some reason my computer doesn't detect my phone when I go into Download mode on startup (it does however detect the usb drivers on my phone once the phone officially startsup into its homepage).
There appears to be a leak when using PhoneStateListeners. The following code simply reigsters in onResume and unregisters in onPause a PhoneStateListener. Repeatedly launch then press BACK (so the app is finished & onDestory is called before the next launch) and the number of activities reported by meminfo will equal the number of launches. For instance, here is the output I get after launching (and finishing) 11 times in sequence:
dumpsys meminfo com.example.leak Currently running services: meminfo
DUMP OF SERVICE meminfo: Applications Memory Usage (kB): Uptime: 12204322 Realtime: 12204322
** MEMINFO in pid 1358 [com.example.leak] ** native dalvik other total size:
2648 3079 N/A 5727
allocated: 2604 2254 N/A 4858
free: 43 825 N/A 868
(Pss): 913 1305 1475 3693
(shared dirty): 1080 3864 568 5512
(priv dirty): 808 936 1056 2800
Objects Views: 77
ViewRoots: AppContexts: 12
Activities: 11
Assets: 2
AssetManagers: 2
Local Binders: 36
Proxy Binders: 21
Death Recipients: 0
OpenSSL Sockets: 0
SQL heap: 0
dbFiles: 0
numPagers: 0
inactivePageKB: 0
activePageKB: 0 #
Without the PhoneStateListener, the number of activities is always 1 no matter how many times the app is launched & finished. So, am I doing anything wrong here? Or is this a bug in the TelephonyManager?
Here's the code package com.example.leak;
import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.os.Bundle; import android.telephony.PhoneStateListener; import android.telephony.TelephonyManager; import android.util.Log;
public class LeakExample extends Activity {
private class MyPhoneStateListener extends PhoneStateListener {
@Override public void onCallStateChanged(int state, String incomingNumber) {
if ((state == TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_RINGING)
|| (state == TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_OFFHOOK)) {
LeakExample.this.finish();
} } }
MyPhoneStateListener phone_listener = new MyPhoneStateListener();
TelephonyManager telMgr ;
@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
telMgr = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService (Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
} @Override protected void onPause() { super.onPause();
telMgr.listen(phone_listener, PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_NONE);
} @Override protected void onResume() { super.onResume();
telMgr.listen(phone_listener, PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_CALL_STATE);
} @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy();
Log.v("LEAK EXAMPLE", "onDestory");
}
Anyone know what providing an application access to "Phone calls: read phone state and identity" actually does?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to know what are the main differences between TelephonyManager and PhoneStateListener, because you can do (more or less) the same things with both. For example, you could create an incoming calls register implementing a broadcastreceiver and using TelephonyManger API or extending PhoneStateListener class and registering this new listener throughTelephonyManager . Case 1 - BroadcastReceiver (TelephonyManager)
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have built an application that listen to call state changes, and I want to notify a service when the call_state became IDLE.All the components I have are functional, I just need to notify (not start) a service for this.What's the correct practice, maybe using AIDL? Because, in a PhoneStateListener, I can't bind to a service. Do I have to start an activity for that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to save some values in the onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) method of my activty by following the example here: How do I save an Android application's state?
But it doesnt seem to load it from the Oncreate(). the bundle object is always null but whenever i call another activity, it does indeed go into the onSaveInstanceState method to save my values.
Now i read that question i just posted and someone noted how they could not get it to work in an emulator? unfortunately that is all im working on. On an emulator and cant test the app on the device as i have no device available to me right now And the web services i am interacting with are in a local VM on my work machine that cannot be accesses remotely at the moment.
My question is, is it true that saved bundles dont work on emulators? I also noticed how when i do dismiss or bring up a new activity , the activity calles onPause and then onStop. when i bring back the same activty, it goes straight to onCreate?
now according to the docs here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#actlife That is correct in terms of what the lifecycle diagram shows but if you read below that diagram on the onStop() section it says the next step it goes into is either onRestart() or onDestroy()? no mention of onCreate? Type on the docs?
Anyways here is my onSaveInstanceState() and onCreate() both in the same activity: code...
I have a BroadcastReceiver that listens for the BOOT_COMPLETED, that part works I know because I disabled my phone listener and displayed a Toast within. That BroadcastReceiver is supposed to start a service, that also works. I run into Force Close issues when my service attempts to tell my TelephonyManager to listen. Any one have any ideas? Here is my code StartSeviceAtStartUp.java import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent;
View 3 Replies View Relatedi've registered a PhoneStateListener in BOOT_COMPLETED receiver by using following call: tm.listen(new TestCallStateListener(), PhoneStateListener. LISTEN_ CALL _STATE); If the application crashes then system automatically unregisters the PhoneStateListener. Is there any mechanism of checking if particular PhoneStateLister is registered or not? Actually i'm thinking of starting a repeating service by AlarmManager which will check if PhoneStateListener is registered or not . And if it's not registered then service will register it again. Just a backup if application crashes. Is this a good approach or there is some better mechanism to make sure that PhoneStateListener is always registered even if application crashes ?
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