There may not be an instance of your activity - definitely not when we're talking about processing boot_completed.
At that point, the only components involed are a broadcast receiver and possibly your wakeful intent service (IIRC). Since the user at that point has never run your application, there aren't any activities that have been constructed. So - don't rely on an instance of Activity subclass to initialize your statics. You can use a lazy-initializable singleton (mine and many others' preferred solution) or use an Application subclass and its onCreate method. -- Kostya 2011/6/12 Simon Platten <simonaplat...@googlemail.com> > Hi, > > I've managed to find out why my application wasn't restarting correctly > after a boot up and it was an uninitialised array that is normally set-up by > the main activity when the application starts. > > The question now is....how do I get the main application activity? > > The reason it isn't so straight forward is that I've created a library > which I use in several similar applications, in the library I have a base > activity class which provides core functionality, in that class I have > defined an abstract method called 'setupArray'. > > The name of the derived activity class may be different in each > application. What I would like to do is get a reference to the application > activity from within the library then call the setupArray method to ensure > the array is set-up from the reboot onReceive method. > > Does that make sense? > > -- > Regards, > Sy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
