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How to get hosting Activity from a view?


I have an Activity with 3 EditTexts and a custom view which acts a specialised keyboard to add information into the EditTexts.

Currently I'm passing the Activity into the view so that I can get the currently focused edit text and update the contents from the custom keyboard.

Is there a way of referencing the parent activity and getting the currently focused EditText without passing the activity into the view?


Solution

  • I just pulled that source code from the MediaRouter in the official support library and so far it works fine:

    private Activity getActivity() {
        Context context = getContext();
        while (context instanceof ContextWrapper) {
            if (context instanceof Activity) {
                return (Activity)context;
            }
            context = ((ContextWrapper)context).getBaseContext();
        }
        return null;
    }