using sendBroadcast in a system app

Question

I'm having trouble sending a Broadcast from an app which is be loaded in a custom rom as a system app (Using android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" in the Manifest).

The problem I'm getting is when trying to perform a simple sendBroadcast:

Intent newIntent = new Intent(intent.getExtras().getString(BUNDLE_ACTION_TO_REPLY_ON));
newIntent.putExtra(BUNDLE_FILE_URI, bitmapFile.getAbsolutePath());
newIntent.putExtra(BUNDLE_REPLY_WIDTH, width);
newIntent.putExtra(BUNDLE_REPLY_HEIGHT, height);
newIntent.putExtra(BUNDLE_REPLY_EXTRA, extra);
context.sendBroadcast(newIntent);

I'm getting this warning in Logcat:

Calling a method in the system process without a qualified user

This is being pumped out by ContextImpl.java in the warnIfCallingFromSystemProcess() process.

Does anybody know why (and if I need to "fix" it)?

Answer 1

Use below function instead of sendBroadcast(Intent intent).

void sendBroadcastAsUser(Intent intent, UserHandle user)

for example:

context.sendBroadcastAsUser(newIntent, new UserHandle(UserHandle.USER_CURRENT));