Get activity reference in flutter plugin
Found the solution here.
Implement ActivityAware
and one of its methods is
override fun onAttachedToActivity(binding: ActivityPluginBinding) {
this.activity = binding.activity;
}
Note:
you can get reference to activity by implementing ActivityAware interface but if you setMethodCallHandler(...)
in onAttachToEngine()
method onAttachToActivity()
will never be called and you can never get access to activity
take a look at below examples
WHAT DOES NOT WORK :
in below examples onAttachToActivity()
is never called
class AndroidLongTaskPlugin : FlutterPlugin, ActivityAware {
private var activity: FlutterActivity? = null
override fun onAttachedToEngine(@NonNull flutterPluginBinding: FlutterPlugin.FlutterPluginBinding) {
//activity is null here
//also onAttachToActivity will never be called because we are calling setMethodHandler here
channel = MethodChannel(binaryMessenger, CHANNEL_NAME)
channel.setMethodCallHandler { call, result ->
//our code
}
}
override fun onDetachedFromEngine(@NonNull binding: FlutterPlugin.FlutterPluginBinding) {
channel?.setMethodCallHandler(null)
}
override fun onAttachedToActivity(binding: ActivityPluginBinding) {
activity = binding.activity as FlutterActivity
}
//rest of the methods
}
HERE IS A WORKING EXAMPLE :
class MyPlugin : FlutterPlugin, ActivityAware {
private var activity: FlutterActivity? = null
private var binaryMessenger: BinaryMessenger? = null
override fun onAttachedToEngine(@NonNull flutterPluginBinding: FlutterPlugin.FlutterPluginBinding) {
binaryMessenger = flutterPluginBinding.binaryMessenger
}
override fun onDetachedFromEngine(@NonNull binding: FlutterPlugin.FlutterPluginBinding) {
Log.d("DART/NATIVE", "onDetachedFromEngine")
channel?.setMethodCallHandler(null)
}
override fun onAttachedToActivity(binding: ActivityPluginBinding) {
Log.d("DART/NATIVE", "onAttachedToActivity")
activity = binding.activity as FlutterActivity
//here we have access to activity
//also make sure to setMethodCallHandler here
channel.setMethodCallHandler { call, result ->
//our code
}
}
//rest of the methods
}