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Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers

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.

Beginner
3h
(46)

Created by Sriyank Siddhartha

Last Updated Jun 25, 2024

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Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers

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.

Beginner
3h
(46)

Created by Sriyank Siddhartha

Last Updated Jun 25, 2024

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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.

Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers
Beginner
3h
(46)
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Sriyank Siddhartha - Pluralsight course - Android Fundamentals: BroadcastReceivers
Sriyank Siddhartha
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Sriyank is a passionate software developer and loves to share his knowledge through his blogs and video courses. He follows "share and gain" principle which led him to publish many courses online. Though he has a deep love for Android he also specializes in other mobile app platforms such as iOS and also web development frameworks such as Laravel. He started his journey of sharing knowledge by holding hands-on workshops in various top level Indian Institutes such as NITs and IITs which eventually made him the speaker of one of the Google Developers Groups India which further supported his workshops in many more institutions. Currently Sriyank is working as freelance software developer and a proud online trainer. Apart from this, he loves to travel and explore new places.

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