Question

Ok, so I have an app that needs to receive incoming SMS, and send out an SMS to the sender. This I can set up fine. The problem is, I only want the Broadcast Receiver to receive when the service is started. I declared the receiver class within the service. I destroy the reference (and unregister the receiver) in onDestroy. While the app compiles, and runs, the broadcast receiver never runs. If I delcare it in the manifest, it works fine, but never stops. The receiver just keeps waking up and processing.

Answer 1

You can try to implement this code:

<receiver android:name=".mystuff" android:enabled="false">

on

PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
            new ComponentName(context, mystuff.class),
            PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
            PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

off

... PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED ...