send broadcast with combination of localbroadcastmanager sendorderedbroadcast

Question

I'm wanting to implement what CommonsWare describes on this blog post: http://commonsware.com/blog/2010/08/11/activity-notification-ordered-broadcast.html. The post makes sense, and I was able to browse the example source here: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Broadcast.

What I'm curious about is if calling LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(UnzipService.this).sendBroadcast(broadcast); inside of a service will still be picked up by a broadcast receiver of the type you define in your manifest.

In case what I'm asking isn't clear, what I'm trying to do is use the LocalBroadcastManager because the broadcasts from my service don't necessarily need to be seen system wide and I'd rather keep them private if possible, but I also want to display notifications if the user closes my app and the service is still running. Is there a way to combine both of those capabilities without sending a broadcast twice inside of the service?

(What I don't want to have to do) like: LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(UnzipService.this).sendBroadcast(broadcast); sendOrderedBroadcast(broadcast);

Answer 1

What I'm curious about is if calling LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(UnzipService.this).sendBroadcast(broadcast); inside of a service will still be picked up by a broadcast receiver of the type you define in your manifest.

No. LocalBroadcastManager only works with receivers registered with the LocalBroadcastManager singleton itself. Moreover, LocalBroadcastManager does not support ordered broadcasts, last I checked.

what I'm trying to do is use the LocalBroadcastManager because the broadcasts from my service don't necessarily need to be seen system wide and I'd rather keep them private if possible

So long as you are not using an <intent-filter> on your BroadcastReceiver in the manifest, and therefore are using an explicit Intent as the broadcast itself, your broadcast will only be seen by yourself and the bit of the OS that manages broadcasts. Other apps will not be able to spy upon it.