passing Context into Application?

[Tom Schindl]

The problem is that the instance is created by Application.launch and
this call returns only when the application is stopped!

Tom

On 24.02.14 09:45, Richard Bair wrote:
> 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
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