Call activity method from broadcast receiver android?

Question

In my application I am sending a port SMS to the mobile. And when the message is recieved I need to perform some task in my activity and update the UI.

Manifest Decl

Answer 1

The error you get is that you are wrongly casting a android.app.ReceiverRestrictedContext to a com.vfi.VerifyActivity.

If you want to achieve what you want to do simply start your activity by giving it some extra information.

public class BinarySMSReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
    SmsMessage[] msgs = null;

    if (null != bundle) {
        String info = "SMS from ";
        String sender = "";
        String msg = "";

        Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");

        msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
        byte[] data = null;

        for (int i = 0; i < msgs.length; i++) {
            msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]);
            sender += msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
            info += msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress() + "\n";

            data = msgs[i].getUserData();

            for (int index = 0; index < data.length; ++index) {
                info += Character.toString((char) data[index]);
                msg += Character.toString((char) data[index]);
            }
        }
        Log.e("SakjsdMS", "akjsdhkas" + msg);
        Log.e("sender", "asdasdasdasdasdasd" + info);

        // HERE COMES THE CHANGE
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, YourActivityToLaunch.class);
        intent.putExtra("message_received", msg);
        context.startActivity(intent);
    }
}
}

And in your other class simply retrieve your message this way :

Intent intent = getIntent();
String message = intent.getStringExtra("message_received");

That's it.

Hope this help !