Question

I extend BroadcastReceiver, and in onReceive() I do whatever I need to do.

onReceive() has a timeout, from the documentation:

there is a timeout of 10 seconds that
the system allows before considering
the receiver to be blocked and a
candidate to be killed

This creates a problem when I am in debug mode. I need more than 10 seconds (sometimes). If I don’t do all my debugging in 10 seconds my connection is closed and debugging is stopped.

Can I increase the timeout or disable it for debugging purposes?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In order to prevent your app from force closing while you are paused on a break point during debugging, try installing the Dev Tools application and enable the Debug App setting which:

Lets you select the application to
debug. You do not need to set this to
attach a debugger, but setting this
value has two effects:

• It will prevent Android from throwing an error if you pause on a
  breakpoint for a long time while
  debugging.

All of the details are here: http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/debugging-devtools.html

If you are doing something complicated in your onReceive method, then consider having your BroadcastReceiver start a Service and pass along the data it gets from within onReceive. The Service can then do the longer processing.