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In Java FREContext is a class that you extend, which serves as a middleman between ActionScript and your native Java code.
Initializing FREContext
You have to implement two things for your FREContext class to be properly initialized.
The first one, of course, is the constructor. The second one is an implementation of getFunctions():
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public abstract Map<String,FREFunction> getFunctions() |
getFunctions() is how your Java code exposes the native ‘functions’ that AIR can call from ActionScript: you provide an array of their names and instances. Are you wondering why I put functions in quotes? Well, Java being Java, these aren’t functions per se. They are classes of the FREFunction persuasion.
Example:
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public class SpeechRecognizerContext extends FREContext { public SpeechRecognizerContext() { // constructor } @Override public Map<String, FREFunction> getFunctions() { Map<String, FREFunction> functionsToSet = new HashMap<String, FREFunction>(); functionsToSet.put( "as_startListening", new ASStartListening() ); functionsToSet.put( "as_stopListening", new ASStopListening() ); functionsToSet.put( "as_isSpeechRecognitionSupported", new ASISSpeechRecognitionSupported() ); functionsToSet.put( "as_resumeListening", new ASResumeListening() ); return functionsToSet; } } |
Disposing of (finalizing) FREContext
Ready for a surprise? Here it comes: all you need for your FREContext class to be tidied up is a destructor.
Example:
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@Override public void dispose() { } |
Surprised? I knew you would be…
What else?
See the equivalent calls for context initialization and finalization in C.
Next, we’ll attempt to put some order in this bunch of initializers and see a graphic of how this happens and who calls who.
After that it will be the finalization’s turn: we’ll look at the order of calls when an extension is unloaded.
Over to you
At what stage is your ANE at the moment? What’s stopping you from finishing it? Let us know in the comments below.
Hello,
how can I call android Application’s registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks() from FREContext?
Hi Igor,
To be able to call the registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks you have to obtain an instance of the Application class first.
Here is how to do it from inside a FREContext sub-class:
Translated in code:
this.getActivity().getApplication().registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(....);Let us know if this works for you.
Cheers,
Hristo