When you publish a component in the manifest, you don't instantiate that component, the system will do so when it needs to. In the case of broadcast receiver, the system creates a new instance every time it needs to deliver an intent to it.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, R Ravichandran <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I have an application that uses an extended BroadcastReceiver class inside > the Activity. I have the extended BroadcastReceiver class as a member > variable of the Activity class. But it looks like the receiver references > keep changing between its construction and 'onReceive' method call. I would > like to understand this better. Here are some details. > > public class MyEventReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { > > public MyEventReceiver(BNDialogInterface dlg) { > System.out.println("Receiver Object in constructor: "+this); > } > > public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { > System.out.println("Receiver Object in onReceive: "+this); > } > > } > > My Activity class: > > public class Notepadv2 extends Activity { > private MyEventReceiver receiver; > > protected void onStart() { > // TODO Auto-generated method stub > super.onStart(); > receiver = new MyEventReceiver(this); > > Intent myIntent = new Intent("Test"); > sendBroadcast(myIntent); > } > > > } > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > package="com.android.demo.notepad2"> > <application android:icon="@drawable/icon"> > > <receiver android:name=".MyEventReceiver" android:enabled="true" > android:exported="true"> > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="Test" /> > </intent-filter> > </receiver> > > <activity android:name=".Notepadv2" > android:label="@string/app_name"> > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" > /> > </intent-filter> > </activity> > > <activity android:name=".NoteEdit"></activity> > </application> > </manifest> > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
