Re: [android-developers] Broadcast Receivers: Can they execute simultaneously or do they always execute consecutively?

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Ali Chousein <ali.chousein@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a little confusion with broadcast receivers. I have a broadcast
> receiver which is triggered upon TIME_SET and TIMEZONE_CHANGED actions
> (the code is given below). What I was wondering is, can
> OnDateTimeChanged (see the code below) be triggered simultaneously
> (and its execution overlaps) when both TIME_SET and TIMEZONE_CHANGED
> actions are triggered or is one always going to be triggered after the
> other?

Within the same process, they will execute consecutively, simply
because onReceive() is called on the main application thread.

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