Why doesn't my BroadcastReceiver receive broadcasts from another app?

Question

App A has this BroadcastReceiver in its manifest (within <application>):

And this receiver:

public class RemoteControl extends BroadcastReceiver {

  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
      Log.w(TAG, "Look what I did!");
  }
}

I'm trying to trigger this from App B:

public void onClick(View v) {
  Log.w(TAG, "Sending stuff");
  Intent i = new Intent("app.a.remotecontrol");
  i.setData("http://test/url");
  sendBroadcast(i);
}

For whatever reason, the onReceive() in App A is never triggered even though it's broadcasted from App B. What can be the cause of this?

EDIT & SOLUTION: I forgot to write that I used setData() on the Intent before broadcasting it. That was indeed the problem: as soon as I removed setData(), the broadcast worked as intended.

Answer 1

Originally I forgot to write that I used setData() on the Intent before broadcasting it. That was indeed the problem: as soon as I removed setData(), the broadcast worked as intended.

I've switched to use putExtra() instead for the Intent metadata:

Intent i = new Intent("app.a.remotecontrol");
i.putExtra("url", "http://test/url");
sendBroadcast(i);