I suggest you use a Handler.
- Initialize a Handler in the Activity, example:
handler = new Handler()
- Provide the handler to the BroadcastReceiver in the constructor, in the same way as I did for NissanTabBroadcast above
- Use
post()
method of your Handler instance in theonReceive()
method to submit the Runnable that updates the UI
This is the cleanest solution I can imagine.
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private MyReceiver receiver;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
receiver = new MyReceiver(new Handler()); // Create the receiver
registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter("some.action")); // Register receiver
sendBroadcast(new Intent("some.action")); // Send an example Intent
}
public static class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
private final Handler handler; // Handler used to execute code on the UI thread
public MyReceiver(Handler handler) {
this.handler = handler;
}
@Override
public void onReceive(final Context context, Intent intent) {
// Post the UI updating code to our Handler
handler.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
Toast.makeText(context, "Toast from broadcast receiver", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}
}