Chapter 18
Broadcast Receivers: Android Inter-Application Communication
In this chapter, wewill take a close look at Android’s Broadcast Receiver classes. This class is used specifically for communications between Android components, each of which will be in the form of a subclass of the primary Android class (Activity, Service, BroadcastReceiver, etc.) as we have seen in our Java coding experiences within this book.
This can include communication between your own application components, but is more widely used for communications between unrelated application components. This would mean communication with other applications. In fact it is even more commonly used to communicate between your application and the components that are included ...
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