How to pass data to BroadcastReceiver?

Question

What I am trying to do is that the numbers to which my application sends messages to, are passed to the BraodcastReceiver...but so far either I am getting null or BroadcastR

Answer 1

Following @Jason 's example...I did this...

In MainActivity or any activity from where you want to send intent from

Intent intent = new Intent("my.action.string");
intent.putExtra("extra", phoneNo); \\ phoneNo is the sent Number
sendBroadcast(intent);

and then in my SmsReceiver Class I did this

public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
  String action = intent.getAction();

  Log.i("Receiver", "Broadcast received: " + action);

  if(action.equals("my.action.string")){
     String state = intent.getExtras().getString("extra");

  }
}

And in manifest.xml I added "my.action.string" though it was an option..

worked like charm!!