BroadcastReceiver lifecycle

Question

1) I have an Activity. This Activity starts a service, which in turn creates and registers a BroadcastReceiver.

2) I have an Activity. This Activity creates and registers a BroadcastReceiver.

When does BroadcastReceiver's life end in each of the above cases? In other words - when it gets destroyed and won't listen to broadcasts anymore?

Answer 1

Declare broadcast receiver in manifest to achieve independent life cycle for it.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html

Answer 2

Only onReceive() method is called in BroadcastReciver's life cycle.