Question

My app look at arriveed email in K9 client in this way…

1) AndroidManifest:

    <receiver
        android:name="com.myapp.K9MailReceiver">
        <intent-filter>
            <action
                android:name="com.fsck.k9.intent.action.EMAIL_RECEIVED" />
            <data
                android:scheme="email" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

2) My Broadcast Receiver:

public class K9MailReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

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

        final Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(context, MyService.class);
        serviceIntent.putExtra(Prepare.MAIL, intent.getExtras());
        context.startService(serviceIntent);

    }
}

My question: is it possible that Android decides to kill my K9MailReceiver class to free memory? If yes, how to prevent this?

Answer 1

Any BroadcastReceiver doesn’t appear constantly in memory. It get’s instantiated when the intent gets received , and killed after onReceive() method is finished.