How To Test BOOT_COMPLETED Broadcast Receiver In Emulator
On my Lollipop x86 emulator on Qemu, it required me to run as root:
adb shell su root am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
Without root, the command fails: alarm manager does not send the broadcast:
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
Broadcasting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED }
java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: not allowed to send broadcast android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED from pid=26595, uid=2000
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1684)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1637)
at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.broadcastIntent(ActivityManagerNative.java:3537)
at com.android.commands.am.Am.sendBroadcast(Am.java:772)
at com.android.commands.am.Am.onRun(Am.java:404)
at com.android.internal.os.BaseCommand.run(BaseCommand.java:51)
at com.android.commands.am.Am.main(Am.java:121)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:262)
Basically this is what you have to do to Emulate the Boot Complete in Android Emulater while is is running:Assuming you are a Windows User.The same applies for Linux
STEPS:On your Console type
adb shell
am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
That is all folks. see the diagram below for a detailed illustration.
Happy Coding!
Some apps may misbehave if BOOT_COMPLETED is received twice, instead limit broadcast to your package only:
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED -p com.example.package
There is no Power Button in Emulator like Devices have,So
To stop an emulator instance, just close the emulator's window.
And To Start/Restart
it Start from AVD Manager of Eclipse and Your BroadcastReceiver with BOOT_COMPLETE action will get called for sure
You can start AVD another way also, From CMD
go to Tools of AndroidSDK and give this commmand E:\android-sdk-windows\tools>emulator -avd AVDNAMEHERE
To Send Broadcast from CMD you can use this Command.
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
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