Broadcast receiver Activity

If you want to catch a broadcasted intent on an Activity, you may get the following error:

1. 02 -22 08 :18 :46.874 : E /AndroidRuntime (276 ) : java. lang. RuntimeException :Unable to instantiate receiver com. helloandroid. broadcasttest. BroadcastTestActivity$MyBroadcastReceiver :
2. ...
3. java. lang. InstantiationException :com. helloandroid. broadcasttest. BroadcastTestActivity$MyBroadcastReceiver
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5.  
6. ...
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8. 02 -22 08 :18 :46.874 : E /AndroidRuntime (276 ) : Caused by :java. lang. InstantiationException :com. helloandroid. broadcasttest. BroadcastTestActivity$MyBroadcastReceiver

This is because you can't instantiate a receiver in an inner class.

Instead of inner receiver, you can manually instantiate a broadcast receiver yourself in the activity.

1.          private BroadcastReceiver       myBroadCastReceiver      = new BroadcastReceiver ( )
2.                  {
3.  
4.                                 @Override
5.                                  public  void onReceive ( Context context, Intent intent  )
6.                                  {
7.                                                 Log. d (  "Broadcastreceiver: "  + intent. getAction ( )  +  " package: " +intent. getPackage ( )  +  " @"  +  System. currentTimeMillis ( )  ) ;
8.                                  }
9.                  } ;

No need to set this receiver in the manifest xml file, register it in the activity's onresume method and unregister in the onpause:

1.      public  void onResume ( )  {
2.          super. onResume ( ) ;
3.         ....
4.          registerReceiver (myBroadcastReceiver,  newIntentFilter ( "your.custom.BROADCAST" ) ) ;
5.      }
6.  
7.      public  void onPause ( )  {
8.          super. onPause ( ) ;
9.         ...
10.          unregisterReceiver (myBroadcastReceiver ) ;
11.      }
12.     ...
13. }

Thats all, the receiver will catch the broadcasts, if the activity is on the screen.

To broadcast custom intents, use the following method:

1.                 Intent broadCastIntent  =  new Intent ( ) ;
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3.                
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5.                 broadCastIntent. setAction (  "your.custom.BROADCAST"  ) ;
6.                 broadCastIntent. setPackage ( "com.helloandroid.broadcasttest"  ) ;
7.                
8.                 ApplicationObject. applicationContext. sendBroadcast (broadCastIntent  ) ;
9.  
10.                 Log. d (  "Broadcast sent"  ) ;

The setPackage() method set an explicit application package name that limits the components the Intent will resolve to.