Broadcast Receivers
A broadcast receiver is another component of an Android process, along with activities, content providers, and services. As the name indicates, a broadcast receiver is a component that can respond to a broadcast message sent by a client. The message itself is an Android broadcast intent. A broadcast intent (message) can invoke (or be responded to by) more than one receiver.
A component such as an activity or a service uses the sendBroadcast() method available on the Context class to send a broadcast event. The argument to this method is an intent.
Receiving components of the broadcast intent will need to inherit from a Receiver class available in the Android SDK. These receiving components (broadcast receivers) then need to ...
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