ACTION_MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED not received

The accepted answer doesn't work any more with Android Studio 1.0+ because of manifest merge issues, as seen here. Totally based on android developer's answer, I fixed the issue with the following implementation:

AndroidManifest.xml:

<receiver android:name=".UpdateReceiver$LegacyUpdateReceiver" android:enabled="@bool/shouldUseActionPackageReplaced" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
        <data android:scheme="package" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>
<receiver android:name=".UpdateReceiver" android:enabled="@bool/shouldUseActionMyPackageReplaced" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

/res/values/resources.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <bool name="shouldUseActionPackageReplaced">true</bool>
    <bool name="shouldUseActionMyPackageReplaced">false</bool>
</resources>

/res/values-v12/resources.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <bool name="shouldUseActionPackageReplaced">false</bool>
    <bool name="shouldUseActionMyPackageReplaced">true</bool>
</resources>

UpdateReceiver.java:

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;

public class UpdateReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{
    public static class LegacyUpdateReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
    {
        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
        {
            if (intent != null && intent.getData() != null && context.getPackageName().equals(intent.getData().getSchemeSpecificPart()))
            {
                onUpdate(context);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
    {
        onUpdate(context);
    }

    public static void onUpdate(Context context)
    {
        Log.d("LOG", "Current app updated");
    }
}

Getting information from all the users I could solve my situation this way. All of them were right, with little points to notice:

In manifest:

    <receiver android:name=".MyEventReceiver" >
        <intent-filter android:priority="1000" >
            <!--other actions I need-->
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
            <data android:scheme="package"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

And code:

public class MyEventReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{     
    @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
    {  
       if(Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_REPLACED.equals(intent.getAction())) 
       {   if(intent.getData().getSchemeSpecificPart().equals(context.getPackageName()))
           {  //Restart services.
           }
       }
    }      
}

In my Android release (2.3 Gingerbread) I was not able to use MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED but we solved using PACKAGE_REPLACED (will advise of any app been replaced) but asking if it is ours with:

 if(intent.getData().getSchemeSpecificPart().equals(context.getPackageName()))
 {
 }

Thanks to all

for some reason, a google developer (named "Dianne Hackborn") thinks it is possible to register to the PACKAGE_REPLACED intent of the current app alone (read archived version here, original link here).

however, i can't find any way of doing it correctly, so i've made a compromise: it will use the newest API when available.

Sadly, I can't find out why it can't be debugged, but it does work (you can write to the log if you wish).

here's the code:

manifest:

    <receiver
        android:name=".OnUpgradeBroadcastReceiver"
        android:enabled="@bool/is_at_most_api_11" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
            <data android:scheme="package" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>
    <receiver
        android:name=".OnUpgradeBroadcastReceiver"
        android:enabled="@bool/is_at_least_api_12" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

res/values/version_checks.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <item name="is_at_least_api_12" type="bool">false</item>
    <item name="is_at_most_api_11" type="bool">true</item>

</resources>

res/values-v12/version_checks.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <item name="is_at_least_api_12" type="bool">true</item>
    <item name="is_at_most_api_11" type="bool">false</item>

</resources>

OnUpgradeBroadcastReceiver.java

public class OnUpgradeBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(final Context context, final Intent intent) {
        if (VERSION.SDK_INT <= VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB
                && !context.getPackageName().equals(intent.getData().getSchemeSpecificPart())) {
            android.util.Log.d("AppLog", "other apps were upgraded");
            return;
        }
        android.util.Log.d("AppLog", "current app was upgraded");

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EDIT: In today's Android versions, when you should set minSdk to be at least 14, you don't need this, and indeed you should just use MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED and that's it. No need for the booleans etc...