/* * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package android.content; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log; /** * Base class for code that will receive intents sent by sendBroadcast(). * You can either dynamically register an instance of this class with * {@link Context#registerReceiver Context.registerReceiver()} * or statically publish an implementation through the * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestReceiver <receiver>} * tag in your AndroidManifest.xml. Note: *    If registering a receiver in your * {@link android.app.Activity#onResume() Activity.onResume()} * implementation, you should unregister it in * {@link android.app.Activity#onPause() Activity.onPause()}. * (You won't receive intents when paused, * and this will cut down on unnecessary system overhead). Do not unregister in * {@link android.app.Activity#onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) Activity.onSaveInstanceState()}, * because this won't be called if the user moves back in the history * stack. * *

There are two major classes of broadcasts that can be received:

* * *

Even in the case of normal broadcasts, the system may in some * situations revert to delivering the broadcast one receiver at a time. In * particular, for receivers that may require the creation of a process, only * one will be run at a time to avoid overloading the system with new processes. * In this situation, however, the non-ordered semantics hold: these receivers * can not return results or abort their broadcast.

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Note that, although the Intent class is used for sending and receiving * these broadcasts, the Intent broadcast mechanism here is completely separate * from Intents that are used to start Activities with * {@link Context#startActivity Context.startActivity()}. * There is no way for an BroadcastReceiver * to see or capture Intents used with startActivity(); likewise, when * you broadcast an Intent, you will never find or start an Activity. * These two operations are semantically very different: starting an * Activity with an Intent is a foreground operation that modifies what the * user is currently interacting with; broadcasting an Intent is a background * operation that the user is not normally aware of. * *

The BroadcastReceiver class (when launched as a component through * a manifest's {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestReceiver <receiver>} * tag) is an important part of an * application's overall lifecycle.

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Topics covered here: *

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  1. Receiver Lifecycle *
  2. Permissions *
  3. Process Lifecycle *
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Receiver Lifecycle

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A BroadcastReceiver object is only valid for the duration of the call * to {@link #onReceive}. Once your code returns from this function, * the system considers the object to be finished and no longer active. * *

This has important repercussions to what you can do in an * {@link #onReceive} implementation: anything that requires asynchronous * operation is not available, because you will need to return from the * function to handle the asynchronous operation, but at that point the * BroadcastReceiver is no longer active and thus the system is free to kill * its process before the asynchronous operation completes. * *

In particular, you may not show a dialog or bind to a service from * within an BroadcastReceiver. For the former, you should instead use the * {@link android.app.NotificationManager} API. For the latter, you can * use {@link android.content.Context#startService Context.startService()} to * send a command to the service. * * *

Permissions

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Access permissions can be enforced by either the sender or receiver * of an Intent. * *

To enforce a permission when sending, you supply a non-null * permission argument to * {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent, String)} or * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String, BroadcastReceiver, android.os.Handler, int, String, Bundle)}. * Only receivers who have been granted this permission * (by requesting it with the * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestUsesPermission <uses-permission>} * tag in their AndroidManifest.xml) will be able to receive * the broadcast. * *

To enforce a permission when receiving, you supply a non-null * permission when registering your receiver -- either when calling * {@link Context#registerReceiver(BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter, String, android.os.Handler)} * or in the static * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestReceiver <receiver>} * tag in your AndroidManifest.xml. Only broadcasters who have * been granted this permission (by requesting it with the * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestUsesPermission <uses-permission>} * tag in their AndroidManifest.xml) will be able to send an * Intent to the receiver. * *

See the Security Model * document for more information on permissions and security in general. * * *

Process Lifecycle

* *

A process that is currently executing an BroadcastReceiver (that is, * currently running the code in its {@link #onReceive} method) is * considered to be a foreground process and will be kept running by the * system except under cases of extreme memory pressure. * *

Once you return from onReceive(), the BroadcastReceiver is no longer * active, and its hosting process is only as important as any other application * components that are running in it. This is especially important because if * that process was only hosting the BroadcastReceiver (a common case for * applications that the user has never or not recently interacted with), then * upon returning from onReceive() the system will consider its process * to be empty and aggressively kill it so that resources are available for other * more important processes. * *

This means that for longer-running operations you will often use * a {@link android.app.Service} in conjunction with an BroadcastReceiver to keep * the containing process active for the entire time of your operation. */ public abstract class BroadcastReceiver { public BroadcastReceiver() { } /** * This method is called when the BroadcastReceiver is receiving an Intent * broadcast. During this time you can use the other methods on * BroadcastReceiver to view/modify the current result values. The function * is normally called from the main thread of its process, so you should * never perform long-running operations in it (there is a timeout of * 10 seconds that the system allows before considering the receiver to * be blocked and a candidate to be killed). You cannot launch a popup dialog * in your implementation of onReceive(). * *

If this BroadcastReceiver was launched through a <receiver> tag, * then the object is no longer alive after returning from this * function. This means you should not perform any operations that * return a result to you asynchronously -- in particular, for interacting * with services, you should use * {@link Context#startService(Intent)} instead of * {@link Context#bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int)}. * * @param context The Context in which the receiver is running. * @param intent The Intent being received. */ public abstract void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent); /** * Change the current result code of this broadcast; only works with * broadcasts sent through * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast}. Often uses the * Activity {@link android.app.Activity#RESULT_CANCELED} and * {@link android.app.Activity#RESULT_OK} constants, though the * actual meaning of this value is ultimately up to the broadcaster. * *

This method does not work with non-ordered broadcasts such * as those sent with {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent) * Context.sendBroadcast}

* * @param code The new result code. * * @see #setResult(int, String, Bundle) */ public final void setResultCode(int code) { checkSynchronousHint(); mResultCode = code; } /** * Retrieve the current result code, as set by the previous receiver. * * @return int The current result code. */ public final int getResultCode() { return mResultCode; } /** * Change the current result data of this broadcast; only works with * broadcasts sent through * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast}. This is an arbitrary * string whose interpretation is up to the broadcaster. * *

This method does not work with non-ordered broadcasts such * as those sent with {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent) * Context.sendBroadcast}

* * @param data The new result data; may be null. * * @see #setResult(int, String, Bundle) */ public final void setResultData(String data) { checkSynchronousHint(); mResultData = data; } /** * Retrieve the current result data, as set by the previous receiver. * Often this is null. * * @return String The current result data; may be null. */ public final String getResultData() { return mResultData; } /** * Change the current result extras of this broadcast; only works with * broadcasts sent through * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast}. This is a Bundle * holding arbitrary data, whose interpretation is up to the * broadcaster. Can be set to null. Calling this method completely * replaces the current map (if any). * *

This method does not work with non-ordered broadcasts such * as those sent with {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent) * Context.sendBroadcast}

* * @param extras The new extra data map; may be null. * * @see #setResult(int, String, Bundle) */ public final void setResultExtras(Bundle extras) { checkSynchronousHint(); mResultExtras = extras; } /** * Retrieve the current result extra data, as set by the previous receiver. * Any changes you make to the returned Map will be propagated to the next * receiver. * * @param makeMap If true then a new empty Map will be made for you if the * current Map is null; if false you should be prepared to * receive a null Map. * * @return Map The current extras map. */ public final Bundle getResultExtras(boolean makeMap) { Bundle e = mResultExtras; if (!makeMap) return e; if (e == null) mResultExtras = e = new Bundle(); return e; } /** * Change all of the result data returned from this broadcasts; only works * with broadcasts sent through * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast}. All current result data is replaced * by the value given to this method. * *

This method does not work with non-ordered broadcasts such * as those sent with {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent) * Context.sendBroadcast}

* * @param code The new result code. Often uses the * Activity {@link android.app.Activity#RESULT_CANCELED} and * {@link android.app.Activity#RESULT_OK} constants, though the * actual meaning of this value is ultimately up to the broadcaster. * @param data The new result data. This is an arbitrary * string whose interpretation is up to the broadcaster; may be null. * @param extras The new extra data map. This is a Bundle * holding arbitrary data, whose interpretation is up to the * broadcaster. Can be set to null. This completely * replaces the current map (if any). */ public final void setResult(int code, String data, Bundle extras) { checkSynchronousHint(); mResultCode = code; mResultData = data; mResultExtras = extras; } /** * Returns the flag indicating whether or not this receiver should * abort the current broadcast. * * @return True if the broadcast should be aborted. */ public final boolean getAbortBroadcast() { return mAbortBroadcast; } /** * Sets the flag indicating that this receiver should abort the * current broadcast; only works with broadcasts sent through * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast}. This will prevent * any other broadcast receivers from receiving the broadcast. It will still * call {@link #onReceive} of the BroadcastReceiver that the caller of * {@link Context#sendOrderedBroadcast(Intent, String) * Context.sendOrderedBroadcast} passed in. * *

This method does not work with non-ordered broadcasts such * as those sent with {@link Context#sendBroadcast(Intent) * Context.sendBroadcast}

*/ public final void abortBroadcast() { checkSynchronousHint(); mAbortBroadcast = true; } /** * Clears the flag indicating that this receiver should abort the current * broadcast. */ public final void clearAbortBroadcast() { mAbortBroadcast = false; } /** * For internal use, sets the hint about whether this BroadcastReceiver is * running in ordered mode. */ public final void setOrderedHint(boolean isOrdered) { mOrderedHint = isOrdered; } /** * Control inclusion of debugging help for mismatched * calls to {@ Context#registerReceiver(BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter) * Context.registerReceiver()}. * If called with true, before given to registerReceiver(), then the * callstack of the following {@link Context#unregisterReceiver(BroadcastReceiver) * Context.unregisterReceiver()} call is retained, to be printed if a later * incorrect unregister call is made. Note that doing this requires retaining * information about the BroadcastReceiver for the lifetime of the app, * resulting in a leak -- this should only be used for debugging. */ public final void setDebugUnregister(boolean debug) { mDebugUnregister = debug; } /** * Return the last value given to {@link #setDebugUnregister}. */ public final boolean getDebugUnregister() { return mDebugUnregister; } void checkSynchronousHint() { if (mOrderedHint) { return; } RuntimeException e = new RuntimeException( "BroadcastReceiver trying to return result during a non-ordered broadcast"); e.fillInStackTrace(); Log.e("BroadcastReceiver", e.getMessage(), e); } private int mResultCode; private String mResultData; private Bundle mResultExtras; private boolean mAbortBroadcast; private boolean mDebugUnregister; private boolean mOrderedHint; }