broadcastreceiver - Broadcast Receivers not working in Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Question

I just updated my Nexus 5 to android 6, until now my app was working fine, but now the broadcast receivers are not working. Has something changed in the new version? Here is the code I tried that was working on previous versions but not in marshmallow -

Android Manifest

    <intent-filter >
        <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"/>
    </intent-filter>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" ></uses-permission>

Broadcast Receiver

public String TAG ="someClass";
private static String ACTION_SMS_RECEIVED = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED";
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    String action = intent.getAction();
    if (action.equalsIgnoreCase(ACTION_SMS_RECEIVED)) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Received...");
    }
}

Service

Broadcast_receiver broadcast_receiver = new Broadcast_receiver();
IntentFilter filter1 = new IntentFilter();
filter1.addAction("android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED");
registerReceiver(broadcast_receiver, filter1);

Similarly the broadcast receiver for PHONE_STATE is also not working.

Answer 1

Your app's target API level is 23, that is android M (6.0). In android M there are huge changes related to user-permissions. Here is nice article explaining the changes.