Android - how to receive broadcast intents ACTION_SCREEN_ON/OFF?

android broadcast
ohnoes picture ohnoes · Oct 19, 2009 · Viewed 44.9k times · Source 
    <application>
         <receiver android:name=".MyBroadcastReceiver" android:enabled="true">
                <intent-filter>
                      <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_SCREEN_ON"></action>
                      <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_SCREEN_OFF"></action>
                </intent-filter>
         </receiver>
...
    </application>

MyBroadcastReceiver is set just to spit foo to the logs. Does nothing. Any suggestions please? Do I need to assign any permissions to catch the intent?

Answer

CommonsWare picture CommonsWare · Oct 19, 2009

I believe that those actions can only be received by receivers registered in Java code (via registerReceiver()) rather than through receivers registered in the manifest.

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