It basically means that though both starting an Activity and a BroadcastReceiver respond to Intents, neither can react to each other's specific Intents. An Activity will only respond to the Intent that is sent with a call to Context.startActivity(), while a BroadcastReceiver listens to system wide event Intents, like a change in network reception.
By my knowlidge you could start an Activity from a broadcast, as Context.startActivity() sends an Intent to the OS that you requested the start of a specific Activity. On 10 jun, 11:29, souissi haythem <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Please i wanna start my activity, when i my broadcast is received. > > I found this in android.com: > Note that, although the Intent class is used for sending and receiving > these broadcasts, the Intent broadcast mechanism here is completely > separate from Intents that are used to start Activities with > Context.startActivity(). There is no way for a BroadcastReceiver to > see or capture Intents used with startActivity(); likewise, when you > broadcast an Intent, you will never find or start an Activity. These > two operations are semantically very different: starting an Activity > with an Intent is a foreground operation that modifies what the user > is currently interacting with; broadcasting an Intent is a background > operation that the user is not normally aware of. > > I don't understand this? > did they mean that i can't lunch an activity from broadcast??? > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
