broadcastreceiver

In my manifest file I have declared the receiver. (as follows) <receiver android:name=".OnAlarmReceive" /> however, once I shut down my application, I am not able to get the alarms and the notifications. Apparently, a call to the OnReceive in my Broadcast receiver is never made. public class OnAlarmReceive extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent arg1) { //various stuff } } Inside the MainActivity, my alarm manager class is as the follows. AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); Intent intent = new Intent("MY_ALARM

I want to unhide a TextView once a method is called in another View file. The TextView is in MainActivity. For this, I am planning to send a broadcast from the View file to MainActivity, but it didn't work. How would I achieve this? Step 0 : Define an action : public static final String ACTION_SHOW_TEXT= "showText"; Step 1 : Create your Broadcast receiver in your MainActivity : BroadcastReceiver mReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { if (myText != null) { myText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); } } }; Step 2 : Add the register and

I have a BroadcastReceiver set up in my Android application that receives SMS receive events. This works fine, but I want to be able to toggle SMS receiving on and off by toggling the BroadcastReceiver on and off. Because if I have a simple boolean inside the onReceive method, even if the SMS receiving is off, my application will start. Is this possible to do? Cheers! You can use PackageManager#setComponentEnabledSetting to enable/disable a component in your manifest file. You create a ComponentName with your package name and class name of your broadcast receiver. Then use the COMPONENT

I have an app in android in which I wanna take a photo when physical hardware button for camera gets pressed.I registered an intent for this type of action but my broadcast receiver never gets called. Here is how I did it: class that extends BroadcastReceiver public class Adisor extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { if (intent.getParcelableExtra(Intent.EXTRA_KEY_EVENT) != null) { // prevent the camera app from opening abortBroadcast(); System.out.println("HEY"); mCamera.takePicture(null, mPictureCallback, mPictureCallback); } } } Here is

I'm building an android application with BroadcastReceiver and I want to show a dialog when onReceive starts. I want to show the dialog on the phone (show the user a dialog no matter where he is, like the whatsapp dialog when you get a message). How I can do that? Thanks! Shobhit Puri If you want to show a dialog from inside your onReceive of the BroadcastReceiver, inside your broadcast receiver you may start a transparent activity with an alert dialog and NEVER called setContentView() . The activity will have an transparent view and only the alert dialog will show. Source: show an alert

I am working on sending my message data on my email Id.I have made a mainActivity class containing an editText (for emailId) and a Button. Another class is BroadcastReceiver class in which I retrieve data. Now I can't understand how to send that data to the provided email in Background. I have googled a lot but can't get the required response. Please share the ideas and help me in it. I create open source library for this. Usage is very simple: BackgroundMail bm = new BackgroundMail(context); bm.setGmailUserName("yourgmail@gmail.com"); bm.setGmailPassword("yourgmailpassword"); bm.setMailTo(