Possible to set BroadcastReceiver priority programmatically?

Question

Is it possible to set the priority attribute of a BroadcastReceiver programmatically or can it only be done in XML? Relevant documents include:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html

It doesn't seem so, but I don't fully understand the relationship of android.R.styleable to a given application and its activities...