Broadcast Receiver Is Triggered Automatically On Start

I have a registered BroadcastReceiver in my main activity. Activity sends a sticky in one of the tabs to trigger the broadcast receiver (TabActivity application). Everything works

Solution 1:

Sticky broadcasts are supposed to stay around (even they are received) so that they can be retrieved afterwards too. Perhaps you should try the simple way of broadcasting using:

sendBroadcast(i);

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