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Vladimir
Vladimir

Reputation: 1243

Android: getApplicationContext() won't work in View subclass

So i have made a class DrawView which extends View and i want to draw some graph in that class with the points i stored as int array i made this array like a sort of public variable with the help of How to declare global variables So when i want to get connected with MyApp in Activity and change my array, i simply use

MyApp appState = ((MyApp)getApplicationContext());

but the problem is that this won't work when i call it in my DrawView.java class. Any ides how to solve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1575

Answers (1)

Budius
Budius

Reputation: 39856

I really don't know why that answer is so up voted as it's not a good solution. The Application object is to run the Application, not to store data, you can solve this MUCH easier with a simple Singleton object, try this:

    public Class MyData{

        private int[] data;
        private static MyData me;

        public int[] getData(){
           return data;
        }

        private MyData(){} // private constructor

        public MyData get() {}
            if(me==null) me = new MyData();
            return me;
        }
    }

than from any object you can call:

    int[] data = MyData.get().getData()

and feel free to expand to more than just a int[] ... put any other object that you want to be globally accessible. But remember, DO NOT KEEP REFERENCES TO THE CONTEXT!

Upvotes: 1

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