Sending and receiving broadcast from the same receiver

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Hello I was trying to implement a custom Broadcast receiver for my Geofence app. I just went through the solution given here But I found that he is sending the broadcast from the receiver class which receives the same broadcast. can someone please tell me how this works. I have not worked much on custom broadcast.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '13 at 08:35

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He is sending the broadcast from one class and receiving it in another receiver. The line below is where he sends out the broadcast.

              Intent intent = new Intent("com.aol.android.geofence.ACTION_RECEIVE_GEOFENCE");

Here is his manifest where he registers a receiver for that broadcast

   <receiver android:name="com.aol.android.geofence.GeofenceReceiver"
    android:exported="false">
    <intent-filter >
        <action android:name="com.aol.android.geofence.ACTION_RECEIVE_GEOFENCE"/>
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

answered Dec 28 '13 at 08:35

Adnan Mulla

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thank u for the answer. Can u tell me what this line means? broadcastIntent .setAction(GeofenceUtils.ACTION_GEOFENCE_TRANSITION) .addCategory(GeofenceUtils.CATEGORY_LOCATION_SERVICES) .putExtra(GeofenceUtils.EXTRA_GEOFENCE_ID, geofenceIds) .putExtra(GeofenceUtils.EXTRA_GEOFENCE_TRANSITION_TYPE, transitionType); LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(MyApplication.getContext()) .sendBroadcast(broadcastIntent); in the receiver class. This line confuses me – Droidme Dec 28 '13 at 09:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '13 at 07:24

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you can send one Broadcast in another one with following code:

ntent local = new Intent();
local.setAction("BroadCastPath"); // like android.receiver.MyReceiver 
context.sendBroadcast(local);

answered Dec 28 '13 at 07:24

Shayan Pourvatan

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Sending and receiving broadcast from the same receiver

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