What is a Sticky Intent ?

Intent is basically an abstract description of an operation that has to be performed for communication. Sticky Intent is also a type of intent which allows the communication between a function and a service.

 sendStickyBroadcast() performs a sendBroadcast (Intent) known as sticky, i.e. the Intent you are sending stays around after the broadcast is complete, so that others can quickly retrieve that data through the return value of registerReceiver (BroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter). In all other ways, this behaves the same as sendBroadcast(Intent).