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title: "What is a Sticky Intent?"  
description: "What is a Sticky Intent?"  
author: "Hemant Patel"  
published: 2018-01-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32777/what-is-a-sticky-intent  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a Sticky Intent?

What is a Sticky [Intent](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2382/how-to-set-textview-from-another-activity-using-intent-extra)?

## Answers

### Answer by Prateek sharma

A sticky intent is also a type of intent which allows the user to send messages through activities or services. the sticky intent is used where we want to retain the value after it has been broadcasted by sendStrickeyBroadcast() method.

the value can be accessed by the value returned by registerReceiver(BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter).


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