Home Key events are processed by PhoneWindowManager, that's to say
consumed by Android system.
That's why your activity can not see it.
BRs
Guobin
On Feb 9, 11:25 pm, Alex Feldman <alexfeld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to capture my activity to handle HOME button press with a
> receiver programmatically, but the event is not firing. I can,
> however, successfully register and capture this intent filter if I
> declare it in a manifest.xml activity section. Here's the code for
> the receiver:
>
> ///////////////////////////////////////////
>
> BroadcastReceiver br;
>
> br = new BroadcastReceiver() {
> @Override
> public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
> return; // I put a breakpoint here to see if this gets called
> }
>
> };
>
> IntentFilter intf = new IntentFilter();
> intf.addAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
> intf.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
> intf.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
>
> registerReceiver(br, intf);
>
> ///////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Does anyone know why this doesn't capture the home button click?
>
> By the way, I tried working around this by creating another activity
> and specifying its intent filter in the manifest. I set the activity
> enabled="false" in the manifest but I couldn't figure out how to
> enable that activity at run time. Bottom line, I only want to
> register the home button intent filter for my application only when my
> application is running, and I can't figure out how to do that.
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