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RomanKovalev
RomanKovalev

Reputation: 859

Get activity instance

Excuse me for simple question,I'm completely beginner java and android developer. How I can get the instance of Activity in setCameraDisplayOrientation when surfaceChanged is called? 

public class MyActivity extends Activity
{
    private Camera mCamera;
    private CameraPreview mPreview;
    public final int cameraId = 0;
    public Activity activity = null;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    activity = this; 

        // Create an instance of Camera
        mCamera = getCameraInstance();

        // Create our Preview view and set it as the content of our activity.
        mPreview = new CameraPreview(this, mCamera);
        FrameLayout preview = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.camera_preview);
        preview.addView(mPreview);
    }

    public void setCameraDisplayOrientation(Activity activity,
                        int cameraId, android.hardware.Camera camera) {

    }

    public class CameraPreview extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {
    private SurfaceHolder mHolder;
    private Camera mCamera;
    ...
    public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int w, int h) {
        ...
        setCameraDisplayOrientation(activity, cameraId, mCamera);
        ....
    }
    }
}

Upvotes: 25

Views: 87604

Answers (4)

Gabriel Marques
Gabriel Marques

Reputation: 131

Method this.getParent() works.

Upvotes: 0

Евгений Шевченко
Евгений Шевченко

Reputation: 631

Here is a way to avoid memory leaks using static variable: make static weak reference to Activity instance that will be set in onCreate(Bundle) method.

  1. Write in your secondary class something like below:

    public Class SecondClass {
    private static WeakReference<Activity> mActivityRef;
    public static void updateActivity(Activity activity) {
        mActivityRef = new WeakReference<Activity>(activity);
    }

  2. Then in onCreate(Bundle) method of your Activity class:

    @Override
onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    SecondClass.updateActivity(this);
    ...
}

  3. Use activity instance this way:

    mActivityRef.get()

Upvotes: 35

ivagarz
ivagarz

Reputation: 2444

Activity a = (Activity) getContext();

As long as you pass the current activity as a context in the constructor, as you are already doing.

Upvotes: 9

Luke Alderton
Luke Alderton

Reputation: 3296

I just set a variable in my main activity like so... public static Activity activity = this; then I can reference it from anywhere using: MainActivity.activity.

You can also set it in the onCreate() method, just set up the variable at the top of your main activity class like this public static Activity activity; then in the onCreate() method just add activity = this; anywhere.

This will work for any class that extends Activity, for example public class MainActivity extends Activity however you can call the variable from any class even if they don't extend Activity.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 4

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