Pro Android 4

Chapter  19

Broadcast Receivers and Long-Running Services

Through previous chapters, you have been exposed to activities, content providers, and services. We haven't talked much about broadcast receivers, so we will do that in this chapter.

We'll show you how to invoke single and multiple broadcast receivers. We will explore how broadcast receivers can reside in processes outside of the client processes. And we will demonstrate how a broadcast receiver issues notifications.

We will talk about the ten-second limit on a broadcast receiver to respond before the system throws Application Not Responding (ANR) messages and suggest known mechanisms to work around this. We will develop a framework where you can start viewing a long-running service ...