Sending Intent from BroadcastReceiver class to currently running activity

Question

I have a class which extends BroadcastReceiver. On receiving a SMS, I would like to pass information to my main activity class to display the text in a box (Append,

Answer 1

You have three ways:
1) You can define your broadcast inside your MainActivity like this:
in onCreate()

registerReceiver(smsReceiver, new IntentFilter(SMS_RECIEVED));  

and define smsReciver in MainActivity

private BroadcastReceiver smsReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        //you can update textBox here
        handler.postDelayed(sendUpdatesToUI, 10);  
    }
};  

define a runnable to update UI

private Runnable sendUpdatesToUI = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        update();
    }
};

and update method

private void update(String text) {
    textView.setText(textView.getText().toString() + text);
} 

2) Register a receiver between your Activity and BroadCastReceiver

3) Start your Activity with new Intent to update current open Activity

Intent intent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("Key", "text");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
context.startActivity(intent);  

UPDATE :
explain method 2
MainActivity.class

in onResume()

registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, new IntentFilter(SmsReceiver.BROADCAST_ACTION));  

in onDestroy()

unregisterReceiver(broadcastReceiver);

local broadCast (broadcastReceiver, in MainActivity.class)

private BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        updateUI(intent);
    }
};
private void updateUI(Intent intent) {
    String text = intent.getStringExtra("key");
    textView.setText(textView.getText().toString() + text);
}

SmsReceiver.class
global attribute

public static final String BROADCAST_ACTION = "your.package.name.displayevent";
private final Handler handler = new Handler();
Intent intent;
Context context;

in onReceive()

handler.removeCallbacks(sendUpdatesToUI);
handler.postDelayed(sendUpdatesToUI, 10);

this.context = context;//you can retrieve context from onReceive argument

this.intent = new Intent(BROADCAST_ACTION);

define two method

private Runnable sendUpdatesToUI = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        display();
    }
};

private void display() {
    intent.putExtra("key", text);
    context.sendBroadcast(intent);
}