Handling buttons inside android notifications

I found out that I had to register “switchButtonListener” in AndroidManifest.xml

<receiver android:name="SettingsActivity$switchButtonListener" />

Source: Android Activity with no GUI


Later I found out that I can also use code like this to achieve the same thing without modifying the manifest.

switchButtonListener = new SwitchButtonListener();
registerReceiver(switchButtonListener, new IntentFilter(SWITCH_EVENT));

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public class switchButtonListener extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Log.d("TAG", "test");
    }

}

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Intent switchIntent = new Intent(LangService.SWITCH_EVENT);
PendingIntent pendingSwitchIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, switchIntent, 0);

notificationView.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.buttonswitch, pendingSwitchIntent);

Note that this way I can declare the switchButtonListener class without the static attribute (if not static, it would crash in the previous example) giving me much more flexibility.
Don’t forget to call unregisterReceiver() later.

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