Capacitor/Android Question: How to obtain current Context?

Question

I am developing a Capacitor (4) plugin and need to access Android system services, which requires referencing the current Context. How do I obtain the context within the scope of the plugin?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You should be able to call this.getActivity().getApplicationContext() in a class that extends com.getcapacitor.Plugin.

For example, see below custom plugin code:

package com.example.mypackage;

import com.getcapacitor.JSObject;
import com.getcapacitor.Plugin;
import com.getcapacitor.PluginCall;
import com.getcapacitor.PluginMethod;
import com.getcapacitor.annotation.CapacitorPlugin;

@CapacitorPlugin(name = "MyPackage")
public class MyPackagePlugin extends Plugin {

    private MyPackage implementation = new MyPackage(this.getActivity().getApplicationContext());

    @PluginMethod
    public void echo(PluginCall call) {
        String value = call.getString("value");

        JSObject ret = new JSObject();
        ret.put("value", implementation.echo(value));
        call.resolve(ret);
    }
}

UPDATE

In the more recent versions of Capacitor you can also call the getContext method which is defined in the built-in Plugin.java file.

/**
 * Get the main {@link Context} for the current Activity (your app)
 * @return the Context for the current activity
 */
public Context getContext() {
    return this.bridge.getContext();
}

Reference link: Plugin source

Hope that helps!