If you want to start one activity (screen) and report a result back to the calling activity (screen) you need the handle of the calling activity. No way around it.
If you are not worried about reporting a result back, you can get hold of the Application Context (context.getApplicationContext()), which is fixed in your app's process. Store this Application Context in a global/static variable and use it to start new activities. On Friday, February 1, 2013 4:22:34 PM UTC-5, bob wrote: > > Can someone help me understand why the startActivity method is in the > Activity class? > > I really don't feel like it clearly belongs in any class. > > I basically want to call the function when I don't necessarily have a > handle to an Activity object yet. > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
