Whither GMail's PROVIDER_CHANGED intent

Question

I have been struggling to get PROVIDER_CHANGED to fire in my receiver. I am trying to detect new GMail. I know that the undocumented access to content://gmail-ls is now closed; all I need to capture is the PROVIDER_CHANGED intent, following which I can access GMail via POP/IMAP.

I can see the Intent in DDMS, as well as in CatLog, just mystified why I can see it in my app. If CatLog can see it, I should too, yes?

Here is my manifest. I have a couple of other broadcast intents (battery low etc, not shown here) that do fire OK.

<receiver android:name=".MyReceiver">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PROVIDER_CHANGED"/>
  </intent-filter>          
</receiver>

And my receiver class:

public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{   
    static Context context = null;
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context ctxt, Intent intent)
    {
        context = ctxt;

        Log.d("MYAPP", intent.toString());
                    if("android.intent.action.PROVIDER_CHANGED".equals(intent.getAction()))
        {
                      ...
                    }
          }

Answer 1

Try to specify android:scheme for the intent filter

Here is the update:

<receiver android:name=".MyReceiver">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PROVIDER_CHANGED"/>
    <data android:scheme="content" />
  </intent-filter>          
</receiver>

Answer 2

I think you're going about this the wrong way, take a look at the

Gmail API