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Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers

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Overview

BroadcastReceivers are the building blocks of Android, similar to an Activity or a Service. This course will help you understand how to keep your app notified about the ongoing events or change in state of the android device.

BroadcastReceivers (or Receivers) simply respond to broadcast messages from other applications or from the system itself. These messages are sometimes called events or intents. This course, Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers, talks about BroadcastReceiver in detail. Beginning with practical examples of how and where it is used in the Android app and system. The course then proceeds progressively, first giving a brief introduction to normal broadcast, ordered broadcast and sticky broadcast, static and dynamic declaration of Receivers, then enters into enhancing security of an app by modifying Receivers. Finally, topics like 'how to deal with dangerous permissions while using Receivers' are also covered along with a demo. After completing this course, you will have a strong foundational knowledge of how BroadcastRecievers work and why they are important to your app.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Getting Familiar with BroadcastReceiver 10mins
  • Creating BroadcastReceiver Statically 44mins
  • Exploring Ordered BroadcastReceiver 22mins
  • Creating BroadcastReceiver Dynamically 19mins
  • Understanding Sticky Broadcast 21mins
  • Enhancing App Security with BroadcastReceiver 26mins
  • Working with Local BroadcastReceiver 12mins
  • Using BroadcastReceivers with Android Permissions 21mins

Taught by

Sriyank Siddhartha

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