How to pass data from BroadcastReceiver to Activity without in onCreate()

Question

I have a serious issue about passing data from BroadcastReceiver to an Activity. Let see my issue carefully. I have a class PhoneStateReceiver ex

Answer 1

Simple without any third party libs.

Make sure BroadcastReceiver must be registered and also unregistered on OnPause().

You have to do two thing

Register a receiver in you activity like below.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    Context context;
    BroadcastReceiver updateUIReciver;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        context = this;

        IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
        filter.addAction("service.to.activity.transfer");
        updateUIReciver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
            @Override
            public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                //UI update here
                if (intent != null)
                    Toast.makeText(context, intent.getStringExtra("number").toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        };
        registerReceiver(updateUIReciver, filter);
    }
}

Now in you service

public class PhoneStateReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        try {
            System.out.println("Receiver start");
            String state = intent.getStringExtra(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE);
            String incomingNumber = intent.getStringExtra(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_INCOMING_NUMBER);
            if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_RINGING)) {
                Intent local = new Intent();
                local.setAction("service.to.activity.transfer");
                local.putExtra("number", incomingNumber);
                context.sendBroadcast(local);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}