Custom DefoldActivity

Questions
#1

How do I create an extension of the com.dynamo.android.DefoldActivity class? There is a need to process intents in the onCreate method.

#2

Good question. I don’t know. I would try this:

  1. Create a dummy native extension. It could basically have a bunch of empty lifecycle functions and nothing more. Add to this also your own activity
  2. Make a copy of the default AndroidManifest.xml
  3. Add your own activity to the manifest and make it the main activity of the application
  4. Navigate from your own custom activity to the com.dynamo.android.DefoldActivity immediately in onCreate() after you’ve processed intents.

I have not tested the above myself but it is worth trying.

By the way, what are the intents you’d like to process? Perhaps extension-iac could be used? The purpose of that extension is to capture additional invocation arguments when launching the application from a link, launcher or similar.

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#3

Thank you for the answer. You are probably right and this is a good way to solve the problem. I should write something like this:

import com.dynamo.android.DefoldActivity;

public class CustomActivity extends AppCompatActivity{
     
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
        // Processing intents
 
        Intent newIntent = new Intent(this, DefoldActivity.class);
        startActivity(newIntent);
        finish();
    }
}

There is also an import problem here:

package com.dynamo.android does not exist
import com.dynamo.android.DefoldActivity;

#4

This is a working way. Who needs.

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class CustomActivity extends AppCompatActivity{

    private final String defoldActivityClassName = "com.dynamo.android.DefoldActivity";

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Processing intents

        Class<?> gameActivityClass = null;
        try {
            gameActivityClass = Class.forName(defoldActivityClassName);
        } catch(ClassNotFoundException ex) {
        }

        if (gameActivityClass != null)
        {
            Intent newIntent = new Intent(this, gameActivityClass);
            startActivity(newIntent);
        }

        finish();
    }
}
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