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public abstract class

BroadcastReceiver

extends Object

java.lang.Object   ↳android.content.BroadcastReceiverKnown Direct Subclasses

AppWidgetProvider, DeviceAdminReceiver

AppWidgetProviderA convenience class to aid in implementing an AppWidget provider. DeviceAdminReceiverBase class for implementing a device administration component. 

Class Overview

Base class for code that will receive intents sent by sendBroadcast(). You can either dynamically register an instance of this class with Context.registerReceiver() or statically publish an implementation through the <receiver> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml. Note:    If registering a receiver in your Activity.onResume() implementation, you should unregister it in Activity.onPause(). (You won't receive intents when paused, and this will cut down on unnecessary system overhead). Do not unregister in Activity.onSaveInstanceState(), because this won't be called if the user moves back in the history stack.

There are two major classes of broadcasts that can be received:

• Normal broadcasts (sent with Context.sendBroadcast) are completely asynchronous. All receivers of the broadcast are run in an undefined order, often at the same time. This is more efficient, but means that receivers cannot use the result or abort APIs included here.
• Ordered broadcasts (sent with Context.sendOrderedBroadcast) are delivered to one receiver at a time. As each receiver executes in turn, it can propagate a result to the next receiver, or it can completely abort the broadcast so that it won't be passed to other receivers. The order receivers run in can be controlled with the android:priority attribute of the matching intent-filter; receivers with the same priority will be run in an arbitrary order.

Even in the case of normal broadcasts, the system may in some situations revert to delivering the broadcast one receiver at a time. In particular, for receivers that may require the creation of a process, only one will be run at a time to avoid overloading the system with new processes. In this situation, however, the non-ordered semantics hold: these receivers still cannot return results or abort their broadcast.

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.

The BroadcastReceiver class (when launched as a component through a manifest's <receiver> tag) is an important part of an application's overall lifecycle.

Topics covered here:

1. Receiver Lifecycle
2. Permissions
3. Process Lifecycle

Receiver Lifecycle

A BroadcastReceiver object is only valid for the duration of the call to onReceive(Context, Intent). Once your code returns from this function, the system considers the object to be finished and no longer active.

This has important repercussions to what you can do in an onReceive(Context, Intent) implementation: anything that requires asynchronous operation is not available, because you will need to return from the function to handle the asynchronous operation, but at that point the BroadcastReceiver is no longer active and thus the system is free to kill its process before the asynchronous operation completes.

In particular, you may not show a dialog or bind to a service from within a BroadcastReceiver. For the former, you should instead use the NotificationManager API. For the latter, you can use Context.startService() to send a command to the service.

Permissions

Access permissions can be enforced by either the sender or receiver of an Intent.

To enforce a permission when sending, you supply a non-null permission argument to sendBroadcast(Intent, String) or sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String, BroadcastReceiver, android.os.Handler, int, String, Bundle). Only receivers who have been granted this permission (by requesting it with the <uses-permission> tag in their AndroidManifest.xml) will be able to receive the broadcast.

To enforce a permission when receiving, you supply a non-null permission when registering your receiver -- either when calling registerReceiver(BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter, String, android.os.Handler) or in the static <receiver> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml. Only broadcasters who have been granted this permission (by requesting it with the <uses-permission> tag in their AndroidManifest.xml) will be able to send an Intent to the receiver.

See the Security and Permissions document for more information on permissions and security in general.

Process Lifecycle

A process that is currently executing a BroadcastReceiver (that is, currently running the code in its onReceive(Context, Intent) method) is considered to be a foreground process and will be kept running by the system except under cases of extreme memory pressure.

Once you return from onReceive(), the BroadcastReceiver is no longer active, and its hosting process is only as important as any other application components that are running in it. This is especially important because if that process was only hosting the BroadcastReceiver (a common case for applications that the user has never or not recently interacted with), then upon returning from onReceive() the system will consider its process to be empty and aggressively kill it so that resources are available for other more important processes.

This means that for longer-running operations you will often use a Service in conjunction with a BroadcastReceiver to keep the containing process active for the entire time of your operation.

Summary

 

Public ConstructorsBroadcastReceiver() Public Methodsfinal void abortBroadcast()

Sets the flag indicating that this receiver should abort the current broadcast; only works with broadcasts sent through Context.sendOrderedBroadcast.

final void clearAbortBroadcast()

Clears the flag indicating that this receiver should abort the current broadcast.

final boolean getAbortBroadcast()

Returns the flag indicating whether or not this receiver should abort the current broadcast.

final boolean getDebugUnregister()

Return the last value given to setDebugUnregister(boolean).

final int getResultCode()

Retrieve the current result code, as set by the previous receiver.

final String getResultData()

Retrieve the current result data, as set by the previous receiver.

final Bundle getResultExtras(boolean makeMap)

Retrieve the current result extra data, as set by the previous receiver.

final boolean isInitialStickyBroadcast()

Returns true if the receiver is currently processing the initial value of a sticky broadcast -- that is, the value that was last broadcast and is currently held in the sticky cache, so this is not directly the result of a broadcast right now.

final boolean isOrderedBroadcast()

Returns true if the receiver is currently processing an ordered broadcast.

abstract void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)

This method is called when the BroadcastReceiver is receiving an Intent broadcast.

IBinder peekService(Context myContext, Intent service)

Provide a binder to an already-running service.

final void setDebugUnregister(boolean debug)

Control inclusion of debugging help for mismatched calls to {@ Context#registerReceiver(BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter) Context.registerReceiver()}.

final void setOrderedHint(boolean isOrdered)

For internal use, sets the hint about whether this BroadcastReceiver is running in ordered mode.

final void setResult(int code, String data, Bundle extras)

Change all of the result data returned from this broadcasts; only works with broadcasts sent through Context.sendOrderedBroadcast.

final void setResultCode(int code)

Change the current result code of this broadcast; only works with broadcasts sent through Context.sendOrderedBroadcast.

final void setResultData(String data)

Change the current result data of this broadcast; only works with broadcasts sent through Context.sendOrderedBroadcast.

final void setResultExtras(Bundle extras)

Change the current result extras of this broadcast; only works with broadcasts sent through Context.sendOrderedBroadcast.