Question

I am making a drawing app and would like to share the image. However, I meet an error for the startActivity part, of which the error writes The method startActivity(Intent) is undefined for the type . What does it means and how could it be tackled? Many thanks in advances!!!

EDIT:

posted further code settings for the codes: ActivityA Calling shareImage() in PaintView.

I am not sure whether the Context in this way is ok? Except this newly added sharing function, the code without sharing runs very smoothly.

PaintView

// the main screen that is painted
public class PaintView extends View 
{      
   Context context_new;       
   private boolean isFileAlreadySaved = false;
   String savedFilePath = "";

   private static final float TOUCH_TOLERANCE = 10;
   // other declarations here

   // PaintView constructor initializes the PaintView
   public PaintView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) 
   {
      super(context, attrs); // pass context to View's constructor
      this.context_new=context;
      paintScreen = new Paint(); // used to display bitmap onto screen

      // set the initial display settings for the painted line
      paintLine = new Paint();
      paintLine.setAntiAlias(true); // smooth edges of drawn line
      paintLine.setColor(Color.BLACK); // default color is black
      paintLine.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); // solid line
      paintLine.setStrokeWidth(5); // set the default line width
      paintLine.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND); // rounded line ends
      pathMap = new HashMap<Integer, Path>();
      previousPointMap = new HashMap<Integer, Point>();
   } // end DoodleView constructor


   public void shareImage()
   {
        Intent share;
        File attachment = null;

        if(isFileAlreadySaved == true)
        {
            attachment = new File(savedFilePath);
            boolean isFileThere = attachment.exists();
            if (isFileThere == true)
            {
                share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                share.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(attachment));
                share.setType("image/png");
                startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share drawing"));
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Toast.makeText(getContext(), "Please save the image first...", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();    
        };
   };

ActivityA:

   public OnClickListener shareButtonListener = new OnClickListener()   
   {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View v) 
      {        
        vibrate();
        PaintView.shareImage(ActivtyA.this);
      };
   };

Logcat:

02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1992)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:127)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1158)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4511)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:980)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:747)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at com.pearmak.drawing.ActivityA.onCreate(ActivityA.java:102)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4470)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1052)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1931)
02-02 16:01:58.230: E/AndroidRuntime(9809):     ... 11 more

Answer 1

you will need to pass Activity Context to Non Activity class by using constructor or by changing method to parametrized method as :

public class PaintView extends View 
{      
  Context context_new;
  public PaintView(Context context){
    this.context_new=context;
  }
   //.. your code here
   public void shareImage(Context context)
   {

     context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share drawing"));
     //OR
     //context_new.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share drawing"));
      Toast.makeText(context, 
          "Please save the image first...",
                   Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();   

      //OR
         // Toast.makeText(context_new, 
         // "Please save the image first...",
         //Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); 

   }

}

and call shareImage method from Activity as :

PaintView paintview=new PaintView(Your_Current_Activity.this);
paintview.shareImage(Your_Current_Activity.this);