Question

I need to be able to be able to call readAsset from outside of the main activity of my application. I have heard people mention needing to pass the Context around, but the language has been very vague. Can someone describe the steps necessary to add the ability to call readAsset to an existing class that is not the main activity? Creating a public function in the main activity and having others call that will not work as the place I need to add readAsset to, is in a separate thread.

Answer 1

public class NonActivity {
    public void doStuff(Context c) {
        //read from assets
        c.getAssets();
        //use assets however
    }
}

Not sure what you’re asking, but perhaps something like this? Just add to the existing class, and use the context to retrieve the assets. In your activity call the method like this:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
  public void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    NonActivity n = new NonActivity();
    n.doStuff(this);
  }
}