I am new to android platform.please help me out how the Broadcast Receiver and Intent Filter behaves in android.please explain in simple line or with example.thanks in advance...
A broadcast receiver is a class in your Android project which is responsible to receive all intents, which are sent by other activities by using android.content.ContextWreapper.sendBroadcast(Intent intent)
In the manifest file of you receicving activity, you have to declare which is your broadcast receiver class, for example:
<receiver android:name="xyz.games.pacman.network.MessageListener">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="xyz.games.pacman.controller.BROADCAST" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
As you can see, you also define the intent filter here, that is, which intents should be received by the broadcas receiver.
Then you have to define a class which extends BroadcastReceiver. This is the class you defined in the manifest file:
public class MessageListener extends BroadcastReceiver {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see android.content.BroadcastReceiver#onReceive(android.content.Context, android.content.Intent)
*/
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
...
}
Here, all intents which are passed through the filter are received and you can access them using the parameter passed in the method call.