Here's the scenario: I have a WakefulBroadcastReceiver that does a backup to a network computer or the cloud. It's set to go off in the middle of the night, when I know the tablet will have access to the LAN. The backup will store the data to a location and a file that was "picked" by the fragment that instantiated the WakefulBroadcastReceiver, using the Storage Access Framework. So I need to be able to access the ContentResolver and to do that I need the context.
From all my reading of the documents, this is what the BroadcastReceiver is meant to be used for - a potentially long running task that should be done in the background when not much else is happening. - Like a backup. I just haven't seen any examples that puts everything together.
How do I get the context in an IntentService? Here is a snippet of the receiver and the scheduling service.
public class BackupAlarmReceiver extends WakefulBroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Intent service = new Intent(context, BackupSchedulingService.class);
startWakefulService(context, service);
}
}
public class BackupSchedulingService extends IntentService {
public BackupSchedulingService() {
super("BackupSchedulingService");
}
@Override
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
// How to get the context - it was a parameter when
// creating the new IntentService class above?
}
}
The example code pretty much follows exactly the Android reference manual code here:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/WakefulBroadcastReceiver.html
So my question is how do I get the context in an IntentService?
The IntentService
is the Context
, as IntentService
inherits from Context
.