Question

Hi i am working on an application that generate an event when ever the headphone is removed from the mobile phone.
I have created a broadcast receiver with receive method as

public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String action = intent.getAction();
        Log.i("Broadcast Receiver", "Hello");
        if( (action.compareTo(Intent.ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG))  == 0)   //if the action match a headset one
        {
            int headSetState = intent.getIntExtra("state", 0);      //get the headset state property
            int hasMicrophone = intent.getIntExtra("microphone", 0);//get the headset microphone property
            if( (headSetState == 0) && (hasMicrophone == 0))        //headset was unplugged & has no microphone
            {

                    //do whatever
            }
        }           

    }

Calling this method as follows

 IntentFilter receiverFilter = new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG);
        HeadSetBroadCastReceiver receiver = new HeadSetBroadCastReceiver();
        registerReceiver( receiver, receiverFilter );

also i have register this in manifest as

   <receiver android:name=".HeadsetBroadCastReceiver">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG"/>
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

and permission

But this doesnot works can anyone guide me through this?

Answer 1

Problem here is that this broadcast has flag Intent.FLAG_RECEIVER_REGISTERED_ONLY set. This means that manifest receivers will not catch that. Here is a full explanation.