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Android Intents and Broadcast Receivers Broadcast Receivers Creating a Receiver in Code

Posted by Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
9,876 Points

Hi guys please help me to pass this stage(Stage 3 of 3).Thank you in Advance

./TimeTravelActivity.java:27: error: cannot find symbol unregisterRecieiver(receiver); ^ symbol: method unregisterRecieiver(NetworkConnectionReceiver) location: class TimeTravelActivity 1 error......is the error message Im getting

TimeTravelActivity.java 
import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View;

public class TimeTravelActivity extends Activity {

public String targetYear;

private NetworkConnectionReceiver receiver = new NetworkConnectionReceiver();

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_time_travel);

Intent intent = getIntent();
targetYear = intent.getStringExtra("EXTRA_YEAR");
EnergySource source = (EnergySource)intent.getParcelableExtra("EXTRA_ENERGY");
}

@Override
protected void onResume(){
    super.onResume();
   IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter("android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE");

  registerReceiver(receiver, filter);
}

 @Override
protected void onPause(){

 unregisterRecieiver(receiver);
    super.onPause();
}
}

2 Answers

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
5,311 Points
Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
5,311 Points

Hi Simbarashe,

Great work on this, it's only a simple typo in your code, the error points to the below where you've simply misspelt receiver

@Override
protected void onPause(){
    unregisterReceiver(receiver);
    super.onPause();
}
Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
9,876 Points
Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
Sedulous Simbarashe Kadzunge
9,876 Points

Aww,thank you