Joon wrote: > I have a receiver that has to react to ringer mode changes. I tried > declaring the said receiver using the manifest file. According to > everything I've read on the web, this should be a pretty > straightforward task. I've been able to receive SMS messages using > this method but for some reason it won't work for ringer mode changes. > > After some fiddling around I found that my receiver works just fine if > I explicitly register it using registerReceiver(). However the > receiver gets unregistered when the activity that called > registerReceiver() finishes. To get around this I had a service > register the receiver. This works but I don't like the fact that a > service is running in the background when in theory (as far as I know) > my first approach should work. > > Am I doing something wrong? Do I need additional permissions to make > this work? or was this behaviour inteded by Google?
Some broadcast Intents only work with dynamically-registered receivers through registerReceiver(). I see no evidence that RINGER_MODE_CHANGED_ACTION is one of those, however. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org -- 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
