Question

i want to pass some information from the received message when i receive it such as the content of the message or the source number of it, and i want to put that information in a button on when a certain condition is true not oncreate, am building messaging application so i want to store my received message in “inbox” how can i do that?
Ps. my onreceive method in a class extends broadcastReceiver and my other class extends activity
thanks in advance!
here is my first class where i extends broadcastreceiver

public class Re extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
 {
 Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();       
SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
 String address="";
    String body="";
    long time = 0;
    if (bundle != null)
    {
        //---retrieve the SMS message received---
        Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
        msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
 address= msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
            body=msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
            time=msgs[i].getTimestampMillis();
}   

}

and here is my second class where i extends activity

public class ThirdView extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.third);
    }
}

Answer 1

If you want to have access to your activity from Receiver’s onReceive – then you should define BroadcastReceiver as inner class of the Actvity and register it programmatically (in onStart method, and unregister in onStop);

public class ThirdView extends Activity {

    private static final IntentFilter intentFilter = 
        new IntentFilter("android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED");

    TextButton myButton;

    BroadcastReceiver receiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

            SmsMessage[] messages;
            //read parse pdus data from intent and pupulate messages array
            //...

            //update the button
            if(messages.length > 0) {
                myButton.setText(messages[0].getOriginatingAddress());
            }
        }

    };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.third);
        myButton = (TextButton) findViewByiD(R.id.myButton);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        registerReceiver(receiver, intentFilter);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        unregisterReceiver(receiver);
        super.onStop();
    }
}