How do I implement a BroadcastReceiver in a Service Class in Android?

Question

I need to implement BroadcastReceiver in a Service class I have created:

public class MyService extends Service

In this class I have to implement a simulation of download by using a Thread - Sleep when the user presses the button in the MyActivity class which implements sendBroadcast(). I cannot extend the Service class to BroadcastReceiver as it is already extends to Service. Can anyone help me to figure it out how to implement this mechanism?

Answer 1

Have the BroadcastReceiver as a top-level class or as an inner class in your service. And get a reference of the receiver in your service. Like this:

public class MyService extends Service {
    BroadcastReceiver mReceiver;

    // use this as an inner class like here or as a top-level class
    public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            // do something
        }

        // constructor
        public MyReceiver(){

        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
         // get an instance of the receiver in your service
         IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
         filter.addAction("action");
         filter.addAction("anotherAction");
         mReceiver = new MyReceiver();
         registerReceiver(mReceiver, filter);
    }
}