It seems like what you should really be doing is using a system notification anyway, you don't want to randomly pop up a dialog box (actually, you can probably pop up a toast in your case, which you can do from the application context..), but a system bar notification probably makes the most sense.
kris On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Weston Weems <[email protected]> wrote: > Treking > > Basically this is what I've done... say I have MyAppActivity which has > stuff that automatically registers itself into application... events > come in, application gets last accessed and I use that to start > dialogs etc. > > Seemed like there were cases where it was throwing exceptions about > null window token even though the activity reference itself wasnt > null. Ie, just simply keeping a reference around doesnt guarentee its > suitable to spawn dialogs (even if it IS an activity). > > I also tried to have in my base callback a context we pass through... > could be activity or app context and thats fine... and say I want to > spawn dialog if context is a subclass of Activity... seems like that > works decent... but seems like that has potential to have problems if > the activity goes away before the callback returns. > > I guess I am frustrated... I like in IOS dev I can just create a > UIAlert, and show =) > > I know that there are things in place on purpose (for fluid user > experience, but for a lot of the stuff I build, its much lower > level... rom hacking and such and I do have a legitimate excuse to be > wanting to do things the way I want) > > Weston > > > > On Feb 15, 4:12 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Weston Weems <[email protected]> wrote: >> > it doesnt even seem there is a decent way to >> > test to see if context is >> > 1) a valid ui context from which I can pop dialogs, show dialog fragments >> > etc >> >> Don't use a base Context, use an Activity, which itself is a Context, but >> one associated with UI (as opposed to, say, a Service). >> >> > 2) know if the reference to the instance of the activity or whatever >> > actually has ties enough to spawn a dialog etc. >> >> That is not very clear. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------- >> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago >> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
