Context cannot be cast to android.app.Activity error

Question

I recently updated the gradle dependencies and right after that I started getting this error:

android.view.ContextThemeWrapper cannot be cast to android.app.Activity

The code where the error originates is the following:

val activity = LocalContext.current as Activity

I need the activity in this function shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(activity, permission).

In other posts on this site I can see that it is usually the way to cast the context to an activity. What could have happened with the update of the dependency? Are there any alternative?

I tried changing the dependencies I thought could be responsible to a previous version but nothing worked

Answer 1

You can use recursive solution:

fun Context.findActivity(): Activity? =
    when (this) {
        is Activity -> this
        is ContextWrapper -> baseContext.findActivity()
        else -> null
    }

And wrap it around let before use:

val context = LocalContext.current
context.findActivity()?.let { activity ->
    // Code
}