Permissions Journey: RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED Tutorial

When you need your application to start when the phone had powered on, then you need to use the RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED permission. On this tutorial i will use the Battery Status Application for reference.

First up, you need to add the permission on the manifest file and the receiver class

<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">

  .....

  <receiver android:name=".BatteryReceiver">

  <intent-filter>

    <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />

    </intent-filter>

  </receiver>

</application>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />

Explanation
Tell android that we have a receiver
<receiver android:name=".BatteryReceiver">

Tell android that we need to do something after the boot is completed
<action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />

Now tell android that we need a boot complete permission
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />

BatteryReceiver Class

public class BatteryReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {



  @Override

  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

    // do what ever you want

    PrefsActivity.connectToBatteryService(context);

  }

}

Explanation
First we need to extend our class to BroadcastReceiver to receive an instruction
public class BatteryReceiver extends BroadcastReceive

Then the magic takes place at onReceive function, on my app i just enable the BatteryService class
// do what ever you want

Hope this helps

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   Jan 17, 2012 - Visual Update

Exporting Bitmap to Image Folder in Android

Say you have a bitmap (dynamically created or what) and you want to save that bitmap to the image folder of the external sdcard. you could do something like this. For better result you could use Threads to preform this operation.

String filename = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()) ;
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();   
values.put(Images.Media.TITLE, filename);
values.put(Images.Media.DATE_ADDED, System.currentTimeMillis()); 
values.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg");

Uri uri = context.getContentResolver().insert(Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values);
try {
  OutputStream outStream = context.getContentResolver().openOutputStream(uri);
  mBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, outStream);
  outStream.flush();
  outStream.close();
  Log.d("done","done");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}

Explanation
First we create the current time as the filename of our new image
String filename = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()) ;

Create a ContentValue and put the fields needed to insert a new image to our Image Database
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
......

Tell the Image Database on which type are we going to save, you can change this to image/png if you need the alphas
values.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg");

Add the new record to our image Database
Uri uri = context.getContentResolver().insert(Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values);

Open an output stream of our bitmap on the URI that is returned after we inserted a new record
OutputStream outStream = context.getContentResolver().openOutputStream(uri);

Using our bitmap (mBitmap), output the bitmap with the compression and quality to the output stream
mBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, outStream);

Flush and close the stream
outStream.flush();
outStream.close();

Hope this helps


Reference
http://www.developer.com/java/j2me/article.php/3748281

Update History
   Jan 17, 2012 - Visual Update