Does your broadcast receiver store data in DB? If yes, your work would be
simple: The activity can be notified about db changes, if it have a cursor
loading the data.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Rahul Kaushik <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a BroadcastReceiver that's able to start an activity just fine
> from its onReceive method. But what if the activity is already
> running? How do I let it know that the BroadcastReceiver has some
> more data for it? Do I just start the activity again? If so, would
> that be a new instance of the activity? What happens to the old one?
> If it doesn't create a new instance, does onCreate get called again?
> If not, how does the activity know that it's been hit again by the
> BroadcastReceiver? More importantly, in that case, how does the
> activity get the data I attached to the intent in the
> BroadcastReceiver?
>
> I have an listview in activity to update.
>
> Thanks
> RK
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