broadcastreceiver

I've found a lot of pages about this in the web, but none of them helped me. I've been for hours stucked in this problem. That's why i decided to make my own question. What I want to do is an application that receives an intent of the type ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON and the method onReceive() of the Broadcastreceiver does something. My Activity is like this: public class MusicControlActivity extends Activity { private MediaButtonIntentReceiver receiver = new MediaButtonIntentReceiver(); @Override public void onCreate(Bundle p_SavedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(p_SavedInstanceState); setContentView

Hi i am using a broadcast receiver for location listening but this broadcast receiver is working only when activity is in foreground else when i am not using this app then receiver is not active here is code of activity onCreate's method where i am registering my broadcast receiver PendingIntent proximityIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), i, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); locationManager.addProximityAlert( latitude, // the latitude of the central point of the alert region longitude, // the longitude of the central point of the alert region 1000, // the

I'm implementing push notification service i my app, I followed the tutorial on Android developers.com , but unfortunately, i did not receive any notifications. I'm receiving the registration id successfully, but,the device doesn't receive any notifications from the back end, although the back ed service receives a successful response. p.s : I'm sure from the implementation of the back end service that sends the notification to Google cloud servers. Could any one help me solving this problem..?, thanks in advance. Below you can find my implementation. The Manifest.xml <?xml version="1.0"

I have a MainActivity where i want to update UI after a AlarmManager is called every 2 minutes.. Please help me how to do this This is my MainActivity public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private Toolbar toolbar; GPSTracker gps; TextView lat1, long1; Button exit, refresh; private PendingIntent pendingIntent; private static MainActivity mInst; double newLat, newLong; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.app_bar); toolbar.setTitle("PWD

I am using PubNub API to get real time messages. I have implemented code to subscribe to my channel and receive ongoing messages. I just want these messages to receive in background even if my application is not open. I have learned about services and broadcast receiver in android but I am not understanding the how to use this with PubNub. Is there any proper way to achieve this? PubNub Subscribe Code public static final String GLOBAL_CHANNEL = "NAME_OF_MY_CHANNEL"; public void subscribe() { Callback callback = new Callback() { @Override public void connectCallback(String channel, Object

I need to start a notification service for an application when the device boots. I have implemented a BroadcastReceiver that listens to the boot signal in order to start the service. However, this works only if the application is not installed on sdcard (because the signal is received before the sdcard is mounted). Is there any solution to keep installing the application on sdcard and yet still receive that signal? Any hack for this? Let me know! Thanks! You could either: Register an account in the AccountManager and set up a sync service ( tutorial1 , tutorial2 ) -- Android will start your