Question

In my application there are two class one is InternetActivity which only extends Activity and sets contentview to main. and MyClass that extends broadcast receiver.

I have 2 TextView and 2 ImageView of WIFI and GPRS in main.xml file.
When changes in connectivities are happening,brodcast receiver is getting called and according to what is enabled and what is not i want to set visibility of TextView and ImageView. But it is only showing both the images and not the changes.
here is MyClass.java file. how can i do it??

public class MyClass extends BroadcastReceiver {

private static ImageView wifi_image, gprs_image;
private static TextView wifi_text, gprs_text;

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

    Log.i("IntrntActivity", "Broadcast message receivved");

    LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(context);
    LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

    View view = View.inflate(context, R.layout.main, layout);

    wifi_image = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.wifi_image);
    gprs_image = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.gprs_image);

    wifi_text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.wifi_text);
    gprs_text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.gprs_text);

    wifi_image.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    wifi_text.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    gprs_image.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    gprs_text.setVisibility(View.GONE);

    ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) context
            .getSystemService(context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo WIFI = cm.getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI);
    NetworkInfo Mobile = cm.getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE);

    if (!WIFI.isConnected() && WIFI.isAvailable()) {
        Toast.makeText(context, "WIFI is available but not connected",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    if (cm.getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI).isAvailable()) {
        wifi_image.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        wifi_text.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

    }

    if (Mobile.isConnected()) {
        gprs_image.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        gprs_text.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        Log.i("IntrntActivity", "Mobile isConnected");

        // Toast.makeText(context,"GPRS is available",
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    if (!Mobile.isConnected()) {
        gprs_image.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        gprs_text.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        Log.i("IntrntActivity", "Mobile is Not Connected");
        // Toast.makeText(context,"GPRS is available",
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }


}

}

P.S : It is correctly going in Mobile.isConnected() and !Mobile.isConnected() and showing it in Log file but its Visibility is not changing.Am i not setting the view correctly? and is it possible to call setContentView(view) from this broadcast receiver?

Answer 1

You need to put your reciever into InternetActivity class, register it there and use already defined local variables. You need not to create separate public BroadcastReceiver implementation, just do a local one.

Like this:

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;

public class InternetActivity extends Activity {

    private ImageView image;
    private TextView text;

    private BroadcastReceiver reciever = new BroadcastReceiver(){
        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
           // do all the checking
           // interact with image and text
        }    
    };
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle state) {
        setContentView(R.layout.....);
        // fill in image and text variables
    }
    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        registerReceiver(receiver, /* your intent filter here */);
    }
    @Override
    public void onStop() {
        unregisterReceiver(receiver);
    }
}