I'm not that much experienced in Android, so every piece of code I have written so far was very simple. Now I need to implement a localization and navigation application, so I need to break my code into modules so that I can change each component alone. I have some variables that I need to share them between different classes. I used static variables but I read in some posts here that static variables are not preferred. Then I found some other posts talking about Context. So I created a class named Globals and I added the following lines in my Manifest file:
<application android:name="com.example.smartnav.Globals"
package="com.example.smartnav"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:allowBackup="true"
android:label="@string/app_name"/>
And here is the Globals Class :
package com.example.smartnav;
import java.util.List;
import android.net.wifi.ScanResult;
import android.app.Application;
public class Globals extends Application {
private Boolean Scanning=false;
private String Logname;
private int interval;
private int numOfScans;
private List<ScanResult> result;
//getters
public Boolean getScannig(){
return Scanning;
}
public int getInterval()
{
return interval;
}
public int getScans()
{
return numOfScans;
}
public List<ScanResult> getRes()
{
return result;
}
public String getLog()
{
return Logname;
}
//setter
public void setScanning(Boolean s){
Scanning= s;
}
public void setRes(List<ScanResult> res)
{
result =res;
}
public void setInterval(int I)
{
interval = I;
}
public void setScans(int S)
{
numOfScans=S;
}
public void setLog(String s)
{
Logname= s;
}
}
Now I have two questions, the first one is that my application keeps crashing whenever I try to use the Globals class, here is the code: Did I use context incorrectly?
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private Context context;
public WifiManager Wifi;
private WifiReceiver receiverWifi;
private IntentFilter filter;
private List<ScanResult> result;
private File AppDir;
private static String filename;
private File file;
private FileWriter writer;
private Globals AppState ;
private int Interval;
private int numOfScans;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Log.d("Main ","activity created");
//
AppState = ((Globals)getApplicationContext());
context= this;
Wifi=(WifiManager) getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
receiverWifi = new WifiReceiver();
filter= new IntentFilter(WifiManager.SCAN_RESULTS_AVAILABLE_ACTION);
registerReceiver(receiverWifi, filter);
Log.d("Main ","wifi registered");
// create the application directory
AppDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/SmartNavi/Log");
if(AppDir.isDirectory())
{
filename=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/SmartNavi/Log/log.txt";
file = new File(filename);
if(!file.exists())
try {
file.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
else
{
Date d= new Date();
filename=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/SmartNavi/Log/log"+d.getTime()+".txt";
file = new File(filename);
try {
file.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
else
{
AppDir.mkdirs();
filename=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/SmartNavi/Log/log.txt";
file = new File(filename);
if(!file.exists())
try {
file.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
else
{
Date d= new Date();
filename=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/SmartNavi/Log/log"+d.getTime()+".txt";
file = new File(filename);
try {
file.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
//setting pars
Interval=250;
numOfScans=4;
AppState.setInterval(Interval);
AppState.setScans(numOfScans);
AppState.setLog(filename);
Wifi.startScan();
try {
writer = new FileWriter(file, true);
writer.append("Smart Navigation. \n");
writer.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
// AsyncScanning.AsyncScan();
}//on create
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
class WifiReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
public void onReceive(Context c, Intent intent) {
result=Wifi.getScanResults();
// AppState.setRes(result);
try {
writer = new FileWriter(file, true);
writer.append(result.size()+" s \n");
writer.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}//end of on receive
}// end of class
} // end of smartNav
My last question is this : I have read on some answers here that if my application becomes a background process then all the data in the context will be set to null, and I will lose my context. Is there is any method to overcome this point? or should I switch to SharedPreferences ?
Edit :Here is the output of Logcat
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.smartnav/com.example.smartnav.MainActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.smartnav.Globals