I am attempting to receive PACKAGE broadcasts and as far as I can tell I have all the permissions required, and all the filters needed. I have registered a broadcast listener through the manifest file and I know my package is being deployed to the emulator. However, I cannot receive any of these PACKAGE broadcast intents. I asked this question, with snippets of my code and configuration at stackoverflow and the response I received said that Android will not broadcast certain system intents to listeners registered via the manifest file and that they need to be registered via the context's registerListener () interface instead.
That answer, as far as I can tell has no foundation in the security documentation. I have also looked through the android OS source and found that those intents are registered as protected broadcasts, but the only place that checks if an Intent is a protected broadcast is to make sure the process sending, not receiving, it is a system process or it will fail. This matches the security documentation. Is there any truth to the original answer and is there actually this limitation that you must use registerListener api to receive protected broadcasts? I saw one package from the source in git that actually registers for the broadcast through the manifest file and never through registerListener, so I believe there is something else incorrect and the current explanation is very misleading. It appears over at stackoverflow people are coming to accept the answer of additional undocumented restrictions on these protected broadcasts, I would like it if we could get clarification if it is misinformation, or a bug, or perhaps real documentation on the matter if it is intended behavior. I am coding against he API level 4 with the Google API's. My original question and the response that spurred me to post this can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1593022/cant-receive-broadcasts-for-package-intents --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
