Question

New to Android/Java, and I’m playing around with AddProximityAlert(). I have the following block of code below, and keep getting errors. Could someone explain what Eclipse is saying, and how I can resolve the error I’m getting for getBroadcast and registerReceiver?

In the SecondaryActivity.java file, I have 2 broadcast receivers, could that be the reason why?

SecondaryActivity.java:

public class SecondaryActivity extends BroadcastReceiver {   

public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

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lm = (LocationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
Location location = lm.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

double latitude = location.getLatitude();
double longitude = location.getLongitude();
float radius = 100f;
long expiration = -1;
final String PROX_ALERT_INTENT = "com.example.test";

Intent intent = new Intent(PROX_ALERT_INTENT);
PendingIntent proximityIntent = PendingIntent.**getBroadcast**(this, 0, intent, 0);

lm.addProximityAlert(latitude, longitude, radius, expiration, proximityIntent);

IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter(PROX_ALERT_INTENT);

**registerReceiver**(new ProximityIntentReceiver(), filter);

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private class ProximityIntentReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

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getBroadcast: The method getBroadcast(Context, int, Intent, int) in the type PendingIntent is not applicable for the arguments (SecondaryActivity, int, Intent, int)

registerReceiver: The method registerReceiver(SecondaryActivity.ProximityIntentReceiver, IntentFilter) is undefined for the type SecondaryActivity

Answer 1

Because you are extending a BroadcastReceiver, you need to use:

PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, 0)

and

context.registerReceiver()

to reference a Context class.

Also naming a BroadcastReceiver SecondaryActivity is a little confusing since SecondaryActivity is not an Activity.