Start Activity from within ArrayAdapter

Question

I have a custom adapter that extends ArrayAdapter. I want to go to MapActivity when the EMAIL is clicked. If I remove the intent part a toast appears with the correct position of the item clicked. However, if I add the startActivity function, the app crashes (no toast). I removed the irrelevant code such as getting distance and setters.getters. Any help or pointer would be appreciated!

ArrayAdapter code

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.location.Location;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.firebase.client.ChildEventListener;
import com.firebase.client.DataSnapshot;
import com.firebase.client.Firebase;
import com.firebase.client.FirebaseError;
import com.firebase.client.ValueEventListener;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.LatLng;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class TrackAdapter extends ArrayAdapter{

    private Context c;
    //ArrayLists to save items

    public TrackAdapter(Context context, int resource)
    {
        super(context, resource);
        this.c = context;
    }

    public void add(/*items to be added*/)
    {
       //add to ArrayLists and super.add()
    }

    static class RowHolder
    {
        TextView EMAIL;
        TextView DISTANCE;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount()
    {
        return this.email.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position)
    {
        return this.email.get(position);
    }

    /*other setters and getters*/

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
    {
        View row;
        row = convertView;
        RowHolder holder;

        final int currentPosition = position;

        if (convertView == null)
        {
            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.track_item, parent, false);

            holder = new RowHolder();

            holder.EMAIL = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.track_item_text);
            holder.DISTANCE = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.track_item_distance);

            holder.EMAIL.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() 
            {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) 
                {
                    Toast.makeText(c, "item at position " + currentPosition, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    Intent intent = new Intent(c, MapActivity.class);
                    c.startActivity(intent);
                }
            });

            row.setTag(holder);
        }
        else
        {
            holder = (RowHolder) row.getTag();
        }


        String EM = (String) getItem(position);
        holder.EMAIL.setText(EM);

        //calculate and display distance

        return row;

    }
}

I also tried replacing c with c.getApplicationContext() and v.getContext(), which also doesn't work.

EDIT- I ran the app on an emulator, and it goes to the MapActivity. However, when ran on an android device connected by USB, the app crashes

EDIT2 - Here is the crash report

--------- beginning of crash
03-29 03:23:42.036 7768-7768/com.example.*******
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main

                                                                                android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
                                                                                    at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:672)
                                                                                at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:659)
                                                                                at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:331)
                                                                                at com.example.ankit.findyourfellow.TrackAdapter$1.onClick(TrackAdapter.java:127)
                                                                                at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5204)
                                                                                at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:21153)
                                                                                at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
                                                                                at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
                                                                                at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
                                                                                at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
                                                                                at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                                                at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
                                                                                at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

Answer 1

Inside your click listener do something like:

holder.EMAIL.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() 
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) 
            {
                Toast.makeText(c, "item at position " + currentPosition, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                Intent intent = new Intent(c, MapActivity.class);
                //if you want to send data to called activity uncomment next line
                // intent.putExtra("extra", "value"); 

                intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                c.startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

It should work :)