Question

I’m trying to send a custom intent to my service that is based off IntentService but when I do context.sendBroadcast nothing seems to happen. I’ve checked through the logcat logs and can’t even see the intent resolution failing.

My service registration in my Android.xml is

  <service android:name=".Service.FbSlideShowService" android:enabled="true" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.test.fbslide.UPDATE_WALLPAPER" />
             <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </service>

I’m trying to send the broadcast from a helper class on my activity thread and passing in context using, I’ve tried sending it in 2 ways:

    Intent changeWallpaperIntent = new Intent(mContext, FbSlideShowService.class);
    mContext.sendBroadcast(changeWallpaperIntent);

And

 Intent changeWallpaperIntent = new Intent(FbSlideShowService.UPDATE_WALLPAPER_INTENT, null);
 mContext.sendBroadcast(changeWallpaperIntent);

But the broadcast just doesn’t work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

sendBroadcast works when you have a BroadcastReciever. But what you have here is a sevice

<service android:name=".Service.FbSlideShowService" android:enabled="true" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.test.fbslide.UPDATE_WALLPAPER" />
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
    </intent-filter>
</service>

Your manifest entry tells that it is a service

You need to use mContext.startService() to start the service.

If you want to start a service when device boots you can refer this answer.