Accessing Context in a CountDownTimer enclosed scope

Question

I'm making a SplashActivity and I encountered a problem when I want to pass the SplashActivity context into a static function that run inside a CountDownTimer enclosed scope using this keyword and getBaseContext() method.

TL;DR

I am trying to figure out how to access SplashActivity context inside an enclosed scope, that is CountDownTimer.

What I have tried:

1. SplashActivity temp = this

   I have made a SplashActivity temp = this; declaration on onCreate method of the Activity, but decided this will not be effective for all Activity that I have made, since I must declare Activity for each Activity class that I have made.

2. Context temp = this.getBaseContext();

   Basically same as above, but more flexible for all the Activity but in my opinion is still not effective for the program.

3. ClassName.staticFunction(super.getBaseContext());

   This will not work because CountDownTimer doesn't extends from SplashActivity, although this kind of solution is the one I was looking for.

Codes:

SplashActivity.java

public class SplashActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        //...
        new CountDownTimer(3000,100) {
            //...
            public void onFinish() {
                MainActivity.StartActivity( SplashActivity.getBaseContext() );
                //SplashActivity. will throw an error, must replace
                finish();
            }
        }.start();
    }
}

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    ...
    public static void StartActivity(Context mContext) {
        Intent act = new Intent(mContext, MainActivity.class);
        mContext.startActivity(act);
    }
}

What I expect:

Run MainActivity.StartActivity(something.getBaseContext) in SplashActivity CountDownTimer without creating any additional variable (because memory optimization), creates a MainActivity view.

Answer 1

For now, I am using this solution:

final Context self = this;

Which is inserted in:

public class SplashActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        final Context self = this; // HERE
        //...
        new CountDownTimer(3000,100) {
            public void onFinish() {
                MainActivity.StartActivity( self ); //HERE
    ...