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A BroadcastReceiver is basically a mechanism to relay Intents through the OS to perform specific actions. A classic definition being

"A Broadcast receiver is an Android component which allows you to register for system or application events."

LocalBroadcastManager is a way to send or receive broadcasts within an application process. This mechanism has a lot of advantages

since the data remains inside the application process, the data cannot be leaked.
LocalBroadcasts are resolved faster, since the resolution of a normal broadcast happens at runtime throughout the OS.

A simple example of a LocalBroastManager is:

SenderActivity

  Intent intent = new Intent("anEvent");
  intent.putExtra("key", "This is an event");
  LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(intent);

ReceiverActivity

LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(aLBReceiver,
              new IntentFilter("anEvent"));

A concrete object for performing action when the receiver is called

private BroadcastReceiver aLBReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override 
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        // perform action here.
    } 
};

unregister when the view is not visible any longer.

@Override 
protected void onPause() { 
    // Unregister since the activity is about to be closed. 
    LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).unregisterReceiver(aLBReceiver);
    super.onDestroy(); 
}

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