I am sending SMS using SmsManager and I made use of WorkManager to be able to do it in background. Since the number of messages is dynamic, I chained WorkerRequest's for this. This is the snippet:
private fun startSmsWork(sms: Array<SmsEntity>) {
val gson = Gson()
val smsWorkerRequestBuilder = OneTimeWorkRequestBuilder<SmsWorker>()
smsWorkerRequestBuilder.setInputData(workDataOf(SMS_WORKER_INPUT_KEY to gson.toJson(sms[0])))
var continuation = WorkManager.getInstance()
.beginWith(smsWorkerRequestBuilder.build())
for (i in 1 until sms.size) {
smsWorkerRequestBuilder.setInputData(workDataOf(SMS_WORKER_INPUT_KEY to gson.toJson(sms[i])))
continuation = continuation.then(smsWorkerRequestBuilder.build())
}
continuation.enqueue()
}
And this is my worker class:
class SmsWorker(ctx: Context, workerParams: WorkerParameters) : Worker(ctx, workerParams) {
override fun doWork(): Result {
return try {
val data = inputData.getString(SMS_WORKER_INPUT_KEY)
val messages = Gson().fromJson(data, SmsEntity::class.java)
sendSms(messages)
Result.success()
} catch (e: Exception) {
Log.e("Sms", e.localizedMessage)
Result.failure()
}
}
private fun sendSms(msg: SmsEntity) {
try {
Log.d("SmsWorker", "Sending message ${msg.id}....")
val sentIntent = Intent(SENT_INTENT_ACTION)
sentIntent.putExtra(SENT_INTENT_EXTRA, msg.id)
val sentPI = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(applicationContext, 0, sentIntent, 0)
val deliveredIntent = Intent(DELIVERED_INTENT_ACTION)
deliveredIntent.putExtra(DELIVERED_INTENT_EXTRA, msg.id)
val deliveredPI = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(applicationContext, 0, sentIntent, 0)
val smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault()
smsManager.sendTextMessage(msg.num, null, msg.message, sentPI, deliveredPI)
} catch (e: Exception) {
Log.e("Sms", e.localizedMessage)
}
}
}
It works okay, BUT I want to be able to monitor each message sent. So I added a BroadcastReceiver for this but the intent that the BroadcastReceiver receives, would only be the latest one (in case of multiple messages). I found out that I have to wait for a message to be sent before sending one.
My question is how would I be able to implement this inside my worker class that it should wait for the result in BroadcastReceiver before returning the Result object.
Any input is much appreciated