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Trigger tasks from Android Broadcast Receivers

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, javascript
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Android Broadcast Receiver and the background runner's JavaScript event entry points mentioned in the issue. Define how a received broadcast should reach JavaScript while the app is backgrounded, then verify that an SMS-style broadcast can trigger the requested runner event reliably.

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Description

Is it possible to trigger the background runner events from Android when we receive an Android broadcast event within a Broadcast Receiver?

For example, I want to do some login in JS when the user receives SMS and the app is in the background. Currently, I have a Broadcast Receiver written in native Android. But I don't know how to pass that event to my JS code.

Dominant language
C
Stars
57
Forks
37
Avg merge
3d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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