In your AndroidManifest.xml, under your receiver, you should also create an
intent-filter with your custom action. Then create an Intent using the
constructor Intent (String action) (by passing your custom action), and
send the broadcast.
I found here a simple example which might help:
http://www.androidcompetencycenter.com/2009/01/basics-of-android-part-ii-intent-receivers/
Bye,
YuviDroid
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Peter Webb r.peter.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a wallpaper app on the market. I have almost finished a
customisation application for it, which I want to sell. Because it is
a wallpaper, I can't use a launch intent.
I have now spent many days trying to simply pass a custom intent using
BroadcastReceiver. I can't find a single example on the net of doing
this between two different applications. In desperation I post my best
guess as to what should work, although I have tried many permutations.
Stepping through with the debugger and I find the sendBroadcast is
executed but nothing is ever received.
Any help on where I am wrong, or to some code that I can use as an
example, may stop me going crazy:
My sender has the following on a button click:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClassName(pack.name,
pack.name.rtestactivity);
sendBroadcast(intent);
My receiver has the following manifest:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
package=pack.name
android:versionCode=1
android:versionName=1.0
application android:icon=@drawable/icon android:label=@string/
app_name
activity android:name=.rtestactivity
android:label=@string/app_name
intent-filter
action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER /
/intent-filter
/activity
receiver android:name=rtestactivity$AlarmReceiver/receiver
/application
/manifest
and the following Java:
package pack.name;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class rtestactivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// set up a button to show mysemaphore value
final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button01);
button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v) {
Toast.makeText(rtestactivity.this, mysemaphore,
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
public static String mysemaphore =not received;
public static class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent){
{
mysemaphore = Received;
}
}
}
}
Always the same. Whatever I do, the receiver is not called - the
debugger steps through the sendintent, but nothing seems to happen.
I write in desperation.
Thankyou for any help you can provide.
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