Android getGlobalApplicationContext() when developing with Kotlin

Question

I'm trying to develop an Android application with Kotlin, but a third party sdk that I am working with requires "GlobalApplication.getGlobalApplicationContext()" which doesn't seem to exist on the Kotlin version.

I converted instruction written in Java code to Kotlin code, but I couldn't find how to convert a line, which is - GlobalApplication.getGlobalApplicationContext()

@Override
public Context getApplicationContext() {
    return GlobalApplication.getGlobalApplicationContext(); // This line
}

getApplicationContext seems to return a context object containing some data about the application, but I couldn't find a Kotlin version of it. Any help will be very appreciated, Thanks!

Check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7298731/when-to-call-activity-context-or-application-context — Ankit Tale, Jul 22 '19 at 11:46
@Ashish Thanks for the reply, but I'm sorry, I'm a newbie to Android. Could you explain a little bit more for me, please? — Minjae Park, Jul 22 '19 at 11:47

Ashish · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-22T11:54:16.587

1

Just return your application context.

For Java :

@Override
public Context getApplicationContext() {
    return getApplicationContext();
}

For Kotlin :

override fun getApplicationContext() : Context {
    return applicationContext
}

edited Jul 22 '19 at 11:54

answered Jul 22 '19 at 11:48

Ashish

6,791
3
26
48

Android getGlobalApplicationContext() when developing with Kotlin

1 Answers1