One app receives the broadcast while the other one does not. Why? - android

I have 3 applications that are dependent on each other. for instance, Client app, Browser and launcher. My requirement is when the client is uninstalled(only when the client) i want the other two apps to be uninstalled as well. For this what i have done so far is, i have written a broadcast receiver(in both the apps) that listens for package removed. if the package removed is my client, i start an alarm that launches the uninstall procedure(individually on both apps). Why the alarm? because i want the uninstall pop up to come up til the user uninstalls the app. The issue i am currently facing is that, sometimes the launcher app does not get the broadcast or so i think. and hence it does not initiate the uninstall. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I am not able to figure out the cause of this problem. below is the code written in the launcher:
The broadcast receiver :
public class UnistallBroadcast extends BroadcastReceiver {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
if (intent.getAction().equals("android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED")) {
String packagename = intent.getData().getSchemeSpecificPart();
if (packagename.equalsIgnoreCase("com.android.nanoheal")) {
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 00);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 00);
Intent intent1 = new Intent(context, AlarmIntent.class);
intent1.putExtra("appnamel", "com.nanoheal.launcher");
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 325,
intent1, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context
.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
calendar.getTimeInMillis(), 1000 * 30, pi);
}
}
}
}
the Alarm Intent:
public class AlarmIntent extends BroadcastReceiver {
Context mContext;
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Log.d("AlarmIntent", "Intent fired by Launcher");
mContext = context;
try {
String appLauncher = intent.getStringExtra("appnamel");
if (appLauncher != null) {
if (isAppInstalled(appLauncher)) {
Uri packageURI2 = Uri.parse("package:" + appLauncher);
Intent uninstallIntent2 = new Intent(
Intent.ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE, packageURI2);
uninstallIntent2.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
context.startActivity(uninstallIntent2);
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private boolean isAppInstalled(String packageName) {
PackageManager pm = mContext.getPackageManager();
boolean installed = false;
try {
pm.getPackageInfo(packageName, PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES);
installed = true;
} catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
installed = false;
}
Log.d("AlarmIntent", "Launcher-IsAppInstalled " + packageName + " "
+ installed);
return installed;
}
}

I am not very certain about the details of how and why.
But i changed this
<receiver android:name="package.UnistallBroadcast" >
<intent-filter android:priority="1000">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED" />
<data android:scheme="package" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
to
<receiver android:name="package.UnistallBroadcast" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED" />
<data android:scheme="package" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
and it worked fine. As far as i know if the priority is set for a receiver the one with the highest priority should get the action first. but strangely, in my case i was not getting the action for the receiver i gave priority.

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The following are the codes to create the AlarmEvent:
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<application
...
...>
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...>
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