Android broadcast receiver not receiving intent

Question

I have two apps that I made, and am trying to send an intent from one to the other but the intent is never getting to the onReceive() however this problem is only one way. The first app can send to the second but the second cannot send back info. I am using a different intent action to send from the second to the first but otherwise they are identical. Any ideas on why this might not be working? I have tried everything I can think of and read most of the posts I could find on here and to no avail.

It's not crashing or giving me any indications as to what is happening in the logcat it's just doing nothing.

send function

private void sendFinishLog(String ID, String Cond)
{
    Log.d("me", "send finish log");
    Intent logIntent = new Intent();
    logIntent.putExtra("ID", ID);
    logIntent.putExtra("Cond", Cond);
    logIntent.setAction("com.me.intent.finishlog");
    Log.d("me","logIntent : " + logIntent.toString()   
        +logIntent.getExtras().toString());
    sendBroadcast(logIntent);
}

receive class

public class LogReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    public static ArrayList<LogDataHolder> logData = new ArrayList<LogDataHolder>();
    private boolean found;
    static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
    private static String lasttime;
    private static String now = "Boot time";
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context cont, Intent logIntent) 
    {
        Log.d("me","On receive");
                etc.....
    }

Receiving app manifest

<!-- for receiving logs  -->
<receiver 
    android:name = "LogReceiver"
    android:enabled="true">
    <intent_filter>
        <action android:name="com.me.intent.finishlog" />
    </intent_filter>
</receiver>

Answer 1

something like:

public void onResume() {
    IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
    getActivity().registerReceiver(mLogReceiver,filter);
}

and for un-register:

public void onPause() {
    getActivity().unregsiterReceiver(mLogreceiver);
}

edit: i just figured that your LogReceiver-class has no constructor neither. you will need to write one aswell:

private LogReceiver mLogReceiver = new LogReceiver() {

and after that you can use the onReceive-method like you have it already in your code.

Answer 2

Try it again like this. The category may need to be added

<receiver
    android:name = "LogReceiver"
    android:enabled="true">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.me.intent.finishlog" />
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/> 
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Answer 3

My problem was solved when I removed the receiver unregister from the OnPause(). method.

Answer 4

You declared the receiver in the manifest as:

    android:name = "LogReceiver"

The documentation states that name should be:

The name of the class that implements the broadcast receiver, a subclass of BroadcastReceiver. This should be a fully qualified class name (such as, "com.example.project.ReportReceiver"). However, as a shorthand, if the first character of the name is a period (for example, ". ReportReceiver"), it is appended to the package name specified in the element.

In other words, it needs to include the package. Try changing the name to:

    android:name = ".LogReceiver"

or

    android:name = "com.me.yourpackagename.LogReceiver"