Sorry it's "you can't do that".  If the receiver is in the manifest, it is a
top-level component not associated with any of your other components.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Loki117 <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Agreed going forward this is a better plan and something which I am
> moving towards but with my current inherited code base this is not a
> possible so "don't do that" isn't really an option for the moment.
>
> On Oct 29, 4:15 pm, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Because the service implements an interface to which I require access
> > > to by casting the context to it's type.
> >
> > Then don't do that.
> >
> > One solid pattern for AlarmManager is to have alarms trigger a
> > manifest-registered broadcast receiver, that in turn calls startService()
> > on an IntentService that processes whatever work needs to be done
> > periodically. This allows the work to be done on a background thread and
> > shuts the IntentService down when there is no more work, minimizing
> memory
> > impact.
> >
> > Conversely, I really do not recommend trying to use AlarmManager with a
> > receiver registered in Java code, because that receiver hopefully is
> > rarely around, because the service that hosts it hopefully is rarely
> > around.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
> > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html
> >
>


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