Create an automatic launch-able Broadcast Receiver in Android

Question

Problem:

I am willing to create an application that simply starts as a background process and whenever a new message comes into the device it should log

Answer 1

Your Code look like this in manifest file

Add the following to your in the manifest:

android:enabled="true" android:exported="true">

Furthermore, according to this thread, it seems that you have to manually start one of your activities before the broadcast receiver will start working, i.e. the application has to have been launched at least once before any broadcast receiver will work.