Question

I want to trigger a Broadcast receiver from the notification. When I click on a button which is on the notification it shows this error:

"Unable to instantiate receiver com.example.testservice.myBroad:
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.example.testservice.myBroad cannot
be cast to android.content.BroadcastReceiver"

**updated/ edited and its working now **

1. Can you please help to handle 2 buttons from notification to broadcast receiver?
   How can I pass extra value from notification broadcast trigger to a receiver that whether its play button pressed or pause?

2. Now my button working but when I click on notification text it does not take me into my activity. Any help?

I write this code for 2 buttons with extra on intent.

 RemoteViews layout = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
            layout.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_title, getString(R.string.app_name));
            Intent clickIntent = new Intent();
            clickIntent.putExtra("button","pause");
            clickIntent.setAction(ACTION_DIALOG);
           
            PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), pendingRequestCode, clickIntent, pendingFlag);
            layout.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.notification_button,pendingIntent);
            builder.setContent(layout);
            
            
             layout = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
            layout.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_title, getString(R.string.app_name));
            Intent click = new Intent();
            clickIntent.putExtra("Button","play");
            clickIntent.setAction(ACTION_DIALOG);
           
            PendingIntent pi1 = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), pendingRequestCode, click, pendingFlag);
            layout.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.notification_button1,pi1);
            builder.setContent(layout);

myBroad receiver file

Bundle extrasBundle = intent.getExtras();
    String str = (String) extrasBundle.get("button");       
    Toast.makeText(context, str, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    context.stopService(new Intent(context, myPlayService.class));

Here is my code:

void showNotification() {
     int pendingRequestCode = 0;
        int pendingFlag = 0;

        final Resources res = getResources();
        final NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(
                NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this,myBroad.class);
        PendingIntent pi= PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent, 0);
        Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(this)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search)
                .setAutoCancel(true)
                .setTicker("this is notification")
                .setContentIntent(getDialogPendingIntent("Tapped the notification entry."));

        
            // Sets a custom content view for the notification, including an image button.
            RemoteViews layout = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
            layout.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_title, getString(R.string.app_name));
            Intent clickIntent = new Intent();
            clickIntent.setAction(ACTION_DIALOG);
           
            PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), pendingRequestCode, clickIntent, pendingFlag);
            layout.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.notification_button,pendingIntent);
            builder.setContent(layout);

            // Notifications in Android 3.0 now have a standard mechanism for displaying large
            // bitmaps such as contact avatars. Here, we load an example image and resize it to the
            // appropriate size for large bitmaps in notifications.
            Bitmap largeIconTemp = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res,
                    R.drawable.notification_default_largeicon);
            Bitmap largeIcon = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(
                    largeIconTemp,
                    res.getDimensionPixelSize(android.R.dimen.notification_large_icon_width),
                    res.getDimensionPixelSize(android.R.dimen.notification_large_icon_height),
                    false);
            largeIconTemp.recycle();

            builder.setLargeIcon(largeIcon);

        notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_DEFAULT, builder.getNotification());
 }
    

    PendingIntent getDialogPendingIntent(String dialogText) {
        return PendingIntent.getActivity(
                this,
                dialogText.hashCode(), // Otherwise previous PendingIntents with the same
                                       // requestCode may be overwritten.
                new Intent(ACTION_DIALOG)
                        .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, dialogText)
                        .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK),
                0);
    }
 

myBroad.class

public class myBroad extends BroadcastReceiver{
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Toast.makeText(context, "received", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    
        context.stopService(new Intent(context, myPlayService.class));  
    }
}

Manifest file is:

 <application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
           

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
          </activity>
          
     <receiver android:name=".myBroad">
        <intent-filter >
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON"/>
    </intent-filter>

        </receiver>
  
    <service android:name="com.example.testservice.myPlayService" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:label="@string/app_name" android:enabled="true"/>
    
    
</application>

Answer 1

Because myBroad is an activity object, and not a broadcast object…

Instead of extending (inheritance) from activity, and then making an internal class which extends broadcastreceiver, then just inherit directly from broadcastreceiver.