Broadcast Receivers

Broadcast Receivers simply respond to broadcast messages from other applications or from the system itself. These messages are sometime called events or intents.

Working with Broadcast Receiver :

1. Creating the Broadcast Receiver
2. Registering Broadcast Receiver

1. Creating the Broadcast Receiver :

A broadcast receiver is implemented as a subclass of BroadcastReceiver class and overriding the onReceive() method where each message is received as a Intent object parameter.

public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
   @Override
   public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
      Toast.makeText(context, "Intent Detected.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
   }
}

2. Registering Broadcast Receiver :

An application listens for specific broadcast intents by registering a broadcast receiver in AndroidManifest.xml file. Consider we are going to register MyReceiver for system generated event ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED which is fired by the system once the Android system has completed the boot process.
File: AndroidManifeast.xml

<application
   android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
   android:label="@string/app_name"
   android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<uses-permission
      android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
   <receiver android:name="MyReceiver">
   
      <intent-filter>
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED">
         </action>
      </intent-filter>
   
   </receiver>
</application>

Example - 1 : Detecting Power Connected

File: AndroidManifeast.xml

<application>
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<receiver android:name=".MyReceiver" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED" >
                </action>
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
</application>

File: MyReceiver.java

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
	@Override
	public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
		Toast.makeText(context, "BroadcastReceiver is detected.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
	}
}

The following list is only a small sample of all available events. Permissions
For some events you need to have the appropriate permissions. For example your app needs the permission android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED if you want to be notified of the Intent.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED event. File: AndroidManifeast.xml

<uses-permission
      android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />