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I want to know if starting up a asynctask from a broadcast receiver considered a bad practice? I basically registered with the C2DM server of google and then when I intercept the onregistered, broadcast receiver, I want to send it to my server.
what is the best way of accomplishing this?
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Creating a BroadcastReceiver The onReceiver() method is first called on the registered Broadcast Receivers when any event occurs. The intent object is passed with all the additional data. A Context object is also available and is used to start an activity or service using context. startActivity(myIntent); or context.
AsyncTask instances can only be used one time.
startActivity(i); Then, in your activity, you will need to getExtra as so: Intent intent = getIntent(); String message = intent. getStringExtra("message");
Yes, this is considered bad practice. That's because if you start AsyncTask from BroadcastReceiver Android may kill your process if onReceive() returned and there is no other active components running.
The correct way would be to start Service from BroadcastReceiver. And this Service should manage AsyncTask. This way Android will be aware about the active component and Android will not kill it prematurely (unless other critical conditions arise, like not enough memory conditions).
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