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what will be the permission for calling broadcastReceiver on Runtime in Marshmallow

Basically i have created alarm app but the broadcastReceiver not getting called in the marshmallow i know about the runtime permission required in the marshmallow but i don't know what will be the permission for my problem for calling broadcastReceiver.
Can anybody please suggest me something please.

I simply solve this problem by creating a service by following this link
Link
Service Code Here...
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.support.annotation.IntDef;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
/**
* Created by waqar on 1/05/2017.
*/
public class LocalService extends Service {
AlarmReceiver alarmReceiver;
#Nullable
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
return null;
}
#Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
alarmReceiver = new AlarmReceiver();
IntentFilter screenStateFilter = new IntentFilter();
screenStateFilter.addAction(Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_ON);
screenStateFilter.addAction(Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_OFF);
this.registerReceiver(alarmReceiver, screenStateFilter);
return START_STICKY;
}
#Override
public void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
unregisterReceiver(alarmReceiver);
}
}
And start this service from MainActivity in onCreate Method.
Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), LocalService.class);
getApplicationContext().startService(intent);
And don't forget to register this service in the manifest.

Error in android service class

I am getting the following error in service class. What is the issue here ?
Error:(17, 8) error: NotificationService is not abstract and does not override abstract method onBind(Intent) in Service
This is my code :
package works.viswajith.birthdayreminder;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.DatabaseUtils;
import android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat;
import java.util.Calendar;
/**
* Created by Viswajith on 6/17/2015.
*/
public class NotificationService extends Service {
DBHelper db;
private Cursor cur;
private Calendar cal;
private int d,m,y;
private String[] temp;
private NotificationManager nm;
int i=0;
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
db=new DBHelper(getApplicationContext());
cur=db.getDetails();
cal= Calendar.getInstance();
d=cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
m=cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
y=cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
}
#Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
for(i=0;i<db.getCount();i++)
{
temp=cur.getString(2).split("/");
if(Integer.parseInt(temp[0])==d)
{
NotificationCompat.Builder mbuilder=new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
mbuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.happy);
mbuilder.setContentTitle("Happy B'day "+cur.getString(0));
mbuilder.setContentText("Today is "+cur.getString(0)+"'s B'day , Wish him ..");
nm=(NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
nm.notify(100,mbuilder.build());
}
cur.moveToNext();
}
return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
}
}

The error has explained it to you perfectly clear: You have to override onBind() or otherwise make your service abstract.
This is how you should do it:
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// Implement your logic here.
}

It is telling you exactly what you need to do...
Because you are extending a service, you need to override the onBind method.
Add the following to your class:
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
}
This method will be called when android binds to your services.

Android Messenger Application using services

I want to implement a simple messenger application for Android devices,I'm working with a web service which contains all the required methods for sending and receiving(by pressing the send button a record will be inserted in the DB and by calling the receive method all the rows related to this receiver(user) are retrieved).
I've written a service in a separate class and in onStart() I check the receive method of my .Net web service,I start the service in onCreate() of my activity ,so the service is in the background and receives the incoming messages perfectly,I can show the new message by using a toast directly in my service code,but I know that for accessing the views which are in my activity I should use pendingintent and maybe a BroadcastReceiver,so I can add the new messages to the main screen of my activity(for example a textview).
Now I want to find a way to access the textview of my activity and set the text of it through my service or anything else...
please help me on this issue,
Here is my activity:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MyOwnActivity extends Activity
{
Button btnSend;
Button btnExtra;
EditText txtMessageBody;
TextView lblMessages;
BerryService BS = new BerryService();
public void SetMessageHistory(String value)
{
txtMessageBody.setText(value);
}
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
btnSend = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSend);
btnExtra = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnExtraIntent);
txtMessageBody = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtMessageBody);
lblMessages = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.lblMessages);
/////////
//////////
startService(new Intent(this, IncomingMessageService.class));
btnSend.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// call webservice method to send
BS.SetSoapAction("http://tempuri.org/Send");
BS.SetMethodName("Send");
String a = BS.SendMessage(txtMessageBody.getText().toString());
lblMessages.setText(lblMessages.getText().toString() + "\n"
+ txtMessageBody.getText().toString());
txtMessageBody.setText("");
}
});
}
}
Here is my service:
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import android.app.ActivityManager;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class IncomingMessageService extends Service
{
private static final int NOTIFY_ME_ID = 12;
BerryService BS = new BerryService();
String text = "";
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Bind Failed");
}
#Override
public void onCreate() {
Toast.makeText(this, "onCreate", 5000).show();
}
#Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
// ////////////////////////
Toast.makeText(this, "onStart ", 1000).show();
// Timer Tick
final Handler handler = new Handler();
Timer _t = new Timer();
TimerTask tt = new TimerTask() {
#Override
public void run() {
handler.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "tick ", 1000)
.show();
// here the receive method should be called
BS.SetSoapAction("http://tempuri.org/RecieveMessage");
BS.SetMethodName("RecieveMessage");
String receivedMsg = BS.ReceiveMessage("sh");
//Instead of toast I want to access the textview in my activity!!!!!
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), receivedMsg, 5000).show();
}
});
}
};
_t.scheduleAtFixedRate(tt, 0, 1000);
}
// /
#Override
public void onDestroy() {
Toast.makeText(this, "onDestroy", 5000).show();
}
}

You need to understand the concept of Broadcast, in your case it is the correct solution.
Start Broadcast in its activity
public static final String ACTION = "com.yourapp.ACTION.TEXT_RECEIVED";
private BroadcastReceiver mReceiver;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
////////
mReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
String msg = intent.getStringExtra("msg");
yourTextView.setText(msg);
}
};
IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter(ACTION);
filter.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
registerReceiver(mReceiver, filter);
////////
}
protected void onDestroy() {
// remember to unregister the receiver
super.onDestroy();
if (mReceiver != null) {
unregisterReceiver(mReceiver);
}
}
When you need to send the message of service you should use:
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setAction(MyOwnActivity.ACTION);
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
i.putExtra("msg", "the message received by webservice");
i.putExtras(b);
sendBroadcast(i);
Have a look here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html

Using a broadcast manager is great but I personally prefer to use square's Otto because it is just so easy to perform communication between components in an android application.
http://square.github.io/otto/
If you do choose to use otto, you are going to have to override the Bus's post method to be able to talk post messages to a bus on the foreground. Here is the code for that:
public class MainThreadBus extends Bus {
private final Handler handler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());
#Override public void post(final Object event) {
if (Looper.myLooper() == Looper.getMainLooper()) {
super.post(event);
} else {
handler.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
post(event);
}
});
}
}
}

Creating an android service

I'm trying to create a service which will start by the user request in the application.
After the user will choose an update interval, the service will run in the operation system background, and will send a non-relevant message.
I've tried to write the service according to the example for Service class API.
For some reason, I figured in debug (when running doBindService() method) that mUpdateBoundService is getting null.
My second question is whether I can use "Toast" inform message outside an application ? (As kind of a desktop notification).
Can anyone help ? Here is my short code:
UpdateService.java
package android.update;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Binder;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class UpdateService extends Service {
private NotificationManager mNM;
private final IBinder mBinder = new UpdateBinder();
private int updateInterval;
public class UpdateBinder extends Binder {
UpdateService getService() {
return UpdateService.this;
}
}
public void onCreate() {
mNM = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(new UpdateTimeTask(), 100, updateInterval);
}
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
return START_STICKY;
}
class UpdateTimeTask extends TimerTask {
public void run() {
showNotification();
}
}
public void showNotification() {
Toast.makeText(this, "Hi", 10);
}
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
updateInterval = intent.getExtras().getInt(getString(R.string.keyUpdateInterval));
return mBinder;
}
}
UpdateActivity.java
package android.update;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.ServiceConnection;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class UpdateActivity extends Activity {
private UpdateService mUpdateBoundService;
private boolean mIsBound = false;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
public void onClickStartUpdateService(View view) {
switch (view.getId()) {
case R.id.btnStartUpdateService:
doBindService();
//Toast.makeText(this,"Service Started",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
mUpdateBoundService.showNotification();
break;
}
}
private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) {
mUpdateBoundService = ((UpdateService.UpdateBinder)service).getService();
}
public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) {
mUpdateBoundService = null;
}
};
private void doBindService() {
Intent updateActivityIntent = new Intent(UpdateActivity.this,
UpdateService.class);
EditText txtUpdateInterval = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtUpdateInterval);
int interval = Integer.parseInt(txtUpdateInterval.getText().toString());
updateActivityIntent.putExtra(getString(R.string.keyUpdateInterval), interval);
bindService(updateActivityIntent, mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
mIsBound = true;
}
void doUnbindService() {
if (mIsBound) {
unbindService(mConnection);
mIsBound = false;
}
}
#Override
protected void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
doUnbindService();
}
}

Your toast is not showing because you are not telling it to. Try:
public void showNotification() {
Toast.makeText(this, "Hi", 10).show();
}
For your service issue, I think that you do not properly understand how services & activities work together. A service can run independently of a service, or you can have a service whose lifecycle matches that of a given activity. From your code, it is not clear which of these models you are following. Your implementation will cause the service to wake periodically, but only while your activity is running. If the user switches to another activity, your service will no longer be woken.
If you want a service to wake periodically independently of the activity, then you need to run your timer event in the service itself. Better still use an Alarm to wake your service: Register an Alarm with AlarmManager which will fire an Intent at a future point (or regular intervals, if you prefer), and extend your service from IntentService, override onHandleIntent() and add the necessary Intent Filter to your Service entry in the manifest.

Android service only uses getters

I finally got the Local Service Sample to work using the LocalServiceActivities.java and the Basics of Android : Part III – Android Services.
Here's my code Controller.java, LocalService.java, Binding.java, and ILocalService.java all baked together one after another separated by comment headers:
/**************************************************************************************************
* Filename: Controller.java
* Project name: Local Service Sample
* Application name: Local Service
* Description: This file contains the primary activity for this application
**************************************************************************************************/
package com.marie.localservicesample;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.os.Messenger;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
/*
* Example of explicitly starting and stopping the local service.
* This demonstrates the implementation of a service that runs in the same
* process as the rest of the application, which is explicitly started and stopped
* as desired.
*/
//public static class Controller extends Activity {
public class Controller extends Activity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.local_service_controller);
// Watch for button clicks.
Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.start);
button.setOnClickListener(mStartListener);
button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.stop);
button.setOnClickListener(mStopListener);
}
private OnClickListener mStartListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// Make sure the service is started. It will continue running
// until someone calls stopService(). The Intent we use to find
// the service explicitly specifies our service component, because
// we want it running in our own process and don't want other
// applications to replace it.
//startService(new Intent(Controller.this, LocalService.class));
Intent startSvc = new Intent(Controller.this, LocalService.class);
startSvc.putExtra(LocalService.EXTRA_MESSENGER, new Messenger(handler));
startSvc.putExtra(LocalService.EXTRA_SONG, 7);
startService(startSvc);
Intent binding = new Intent(Controller.this, Binding.class);
startActivity(binding);
}
};
private OnClickListener mStopListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// Cancel a previous call to startService(). Note that the
// service will not actually stop at this point if there are
// still bound clients.
stopService(new Intent(Controller.this,
LocalService.class));
}
};
/*
* This is a handler to be passed to the Service via a Messenger.
*/
private Handler handler = new Handler() {
#Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
// simple handler test
String obj = (String) msg.obj;
Log.i("handleMessge", "obj: " + obj);
}
};
}
/**************************************************************************************************
* Filename: LocalService.java
* Project name: Local Service Sample
* Application name: Local Service
* Description: This file contains a local service
**************************************************************************************************/
package com.marie.localservicesample;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Binder;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.Message;
import android.os.Messenger;
import android.os.RemoteException;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class LocalService extends Service {
private NotificationManager mNM;
// Unique Identification Number for the Notification.
// We use it on Notification start, and to cancel it.
//private int NOTIFICATION = R.string.local_service_started;
private int NOTIFICATION = R.string.local_service_started;
private int statusCode = 10;
// This is the object that receives interactions from clients. See
// RemoteService for a more complete example.
private final IBinder mBinder = new LocalBinder();
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
return mBinder;
}
/**
* Class for clients to access. Because we know this service always
* runs in the same process as its clients, we don't need to deal with
* IPC.
*/
public class LocalBinder extends Binder implements ILocalService {
LocalService getService() {
return LocalService.this;
}
#Override
public int getStatusCode() {
return statusCode;
}
}
public static final String EXTRA_MESSENGER = "com.marie.localservicesample.EXTRA_MESSENGER";
private Messenger messenger;
public static final String EXTRA_SONG = "com.marie.localservicesample.EXTRA_SONG";
private int song;
#Override
public void onCreate() {
mNM = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
// Display a notification about us starting. We put an icon in the status bar.
showNotification();
Thread thr = new Thread(null, new ServiceWorker(), "BackgroundService");
thr.start();
}
/*
* This is the ServiceWorker thread that passes messages to the handler defined in
* the MainActivity class.
* NOTE: Instead of passing messages to a handler in MainActivity I would like
* it to pass messages to a handler defined in the RcvMessages activity.
*/
class ServiceWorker implements Runnable
{
public void run() {
// do background processing here... something simple
while (messenger == null);
// send a message to the handler
try {
Message msg = Message.obtain();
msg.obj = "Hello " + "Song " + song;
msg.arg1 = song;
messenger.send(msg);
} catch (RemoteException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
// stop the service when done...
// LocalService.this.stopSelf();
// Or use the unbindBtn in the MainActivity class.
}
}
#Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
Log.i("LocalService", "Received start id " + startId + ": " + intent);
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
messenger = (Messenger)extras.get(EXTRA_MESSENGER);
try {
song = (Integer) extras.get(EXTRA_SONG);
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
song = 0;
}
// We want this service to continue running until it is explicitly
// stopped, so return sticky.
return START_STICKY;
}
#Override
public void onDestroy() {
// Cancel the persistent notification.
mNM.cancel(NOTIFICATION);
// Tell the user we stopped.
Toast.makeText(this, R.string.local_service_stopped, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
/**
* Show a notification while this service is running.
*/
private void showNotification() {
// In this sample, we'll use the same text for the ticker and the expanded notification
CharSequence text = getText(R.string.local_service_started);
// Set the icon, scrolling text and timestamp
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.stat_sample, text,
System.currentTimeMillis());
// The PendingIntent to launch our activity if the user selects this notification
//PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, LocalServiceActivities.Controller.class), 0);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, Controller.class), 0);
// Set the info for the views that show in the notification panel.
notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, getText(R.string.local_service_label),
text, contentIntent);
// Send the notification.
mNM.notify(NOTIFICATION, notification);
}
/* Duplicate added by Eclipse
#Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
*/
}
/**************************************************************************************************
* Filename: Binding.java
* Project name: Local Service Sample
* Application name: Local Service
* Description: This file contains the binding for this application
**************************************************************************************************/
package com.marie.localservicesample;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.ServiceConnection;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;
/*
* Example of binding and unbinding to the local service.
* This demonstrates the implementation of a service which the client will
* bind to, receiving an object through which it can communicate with the service.
*/
public class Binding extends Activity {
private boolean mIsBound;
private LocalService mBoundService;
private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) {
// This is called when the connection with the service has been
// established, giving us the service object we can use to
// interact with the service. Because we have bound to a explicit
// service that we know is running in our own process, we can
// cast its IBinder to a concrete class and directly access it.
mBoundService = ((LocalService.LocalBinder)service).getService();
ILocalService localService = (ILocalService)service;
int statusCode = localService.getStatusCode();
Log.d("Binding","called onServiceConnected. statusCode: " + statusCode);
Toast.makeText(Binding.this, R.string.local_service_connected,
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) {
// This is called when the connection with the service has been
// unexpectedly disconnected -- that is, its process crashed.
// Because it is running in our same process, we should never
// see this happen.
mBoundService = null;
Log.d("Binding", "called onServiceDisconnected");
Toast.makeText(Binding.this, R.string.local_service_disconnected,
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
};
void doBindService() {
// Establish a connection with the service. We use an explicit
// class name because we want a specific service implementation that
// we know will be running in our own process (and thus won't be
// supporting component replacement by other applications).
bindService(new Intent(Binding.this,
LocalService.class), mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
mIsBound = true;
}
void doUnbindService() {
if (mIsBound) {
// Detach our existing connection.
unbindService(mConnection);
mIsBound = false;
}
}
#Override
protected void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
doUnbindService();
}
private OnClickListener mBindListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
doBindService();
}
};
private OnClickListener mUnbindListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
doUnbindService();
}
};
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.local_service_binding);
// Watch for button clicks.
Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bind);
button.setOnClickListener(mBindListener);
button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.unbind);
button.setOnClickListener(mUnbindListener);
}
}
/**************************************************************************************************
* Filename: ILocalService.java
* Project name: Local Service Sample
* Application name: Local Service
* Description: This file contains an example interface for LocalService
**************************************************************************************************/
package com.marie.localservicesample;
public interface ILocalService {
// An example method for ILocalService
public int getStatusCode();
}
My question is why would anyone want to provide an ILocalService.java if they already have a startService() with a thread and a handler like I do? My ILocalService.java is a trivial demo which asks for a statusCode. As far as I can tell my ILocalService.java will only consist of getters of status and no setters. So will I only be asking for status info of my local service? What would be an example of a setter to my local service?

Your binder looks like this:
public class LocalBinder extends Binder implements ILocalService {
LocalService getService() {
return LocalService.this;
}
#Override
public int getStatusCode() {
return statusCode;
}
}
The key part of interest is getService. What this means is that any of your Activities that bind to your Service (since this is a local service) can actually obtain the service object and can call ANY functions on that service function, not just getters. You aren't limited to just the narrow communication channel that is startService and the Intent, you have the full method interface for the service object. In the past I've passed BluetoothDevice instances, Handler instances and other complex Java objects through to the service object.