Hola everyone,

While working on android project i got myself into a situation where i had to start an activity from non-activity class (a class that doesn’t extend Activity), and i had no other option that time. So lets say there is a class called DummyClass having a dummyMethod() and i had to start an activity called MeActivity, so i wrote this to start an activity, a rough pseudocode:

DummyClass{
…
dummyMethod(){
Intent dummyIntent = new Intent(DummyClass.this, MeActivity.class);
this.startActivity(dummyIntent);
}
…
}

Well as i had my doubts earlier above code is a garbage cuz there is no startActivity() method in my dummyclass. So i did something which worked for me. I declared a public static Context reference variable in MeActivity class and in its constructor i assigned its instance to variable. Here is the code that will look like:

public class MeActivity extends Activity{
     public static Context meActivityContext;
     public FavoritesActivity(){
         MeActivity.meActivityContext=this;
     }
}

So that was it. Now i used this context variable to start my activity from non-activity class.

DummyClass{
…
dummyMethod(){
     Intent dummyIntent = new Intent(MeActivity.meActivityContext, MeActivity.class);
     MeActivity.meActivityContext.startActivity(dummyIntent);
}
…
}

well that worked for me, hope it works for you too.

Gracias.