passing Context into Application?

[Richard Bair]

What if you had an AndroidApplication extends Application that added the new APIs, such that somebody could specialize behave by using the AndroidApplication subclass?

On Feb 24, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Johan Vos <johan at lodgon.com> wrote:

> I've been working on using the Android API's in a JavaFX application. As
> explained in my blog post at
> http://www.lodgon.com/dali/blog/entry/Using_Android_APIs_in_JavaFX we're
> using a (imo) rather dirty trick.
> The problem is that all Android API's need to be accessed via a Context
> instance. The Java FXActivity that we use to bootstrap the JavaFX
> Application extends Context, but it is only accessible in the JavaFX app
> since we add it as a static field on FXActivity. When FXActivity calls the
> LauncherImpl to start the application, we can't pass context information.
> We can pass String[] but that is not useful here.
> 
> In general, I think the environment that launches a JavaFX Application
> (Android, iOS, script, JNLP, management software,...) may want to pass some
> context information. Of course this context information is very specific,
> with Object being the ugly common denominator.
> 
> I realize it goes against the wora principles, but having the possibility
> to either inject or set a context on javafx.application.Application would
> definitely help using JavaFX in other environments.
> 
> - Johan