Question

I am making an android program that needs to do something when I receive a message from the Skype app. My Skype will be logged in, and it will be a service or activity waiting for someone to message me, and when it does it will play a song. Does anyone know how, code-wise, I can tell if I have received a message from the Skype app?

If there is no way to do this, how can I have a service scan the notification bar for a notification that contains the text “skype” and react right when it’s received?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

If skype broadcasts intent upon message reception ( look into decumentation of skype if there is one ) you may just receive it ( via broadcast receiver ) in your application and do something. Incase it does not, there may be still workauround to snoop into status bar:

Detect a new Android notification

for skype notifications