AndroidJavaClass and AndroidJavaObject question

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I have a class named MyClass,it inherited from UnityPlayerActivity,it also has a method

 public int getValue(){
 return 20;
 }

I want to use AndroidJavaObject to get this value of this method. my code as following:

 using(AndroidJavaObject obj=new AndroidJavaObject("com.mxr.test.MyClass")){    
 value=obj.Call<int>("getValue");    
 }

but,when I run it,I can't get the value, any body can help me? thanks a lot

Answer 1

When you inherit from UnityPlayerActivity, I suppose you also use this as the main activity for the game (also involves creating a new AndroidManifest.xml that declares that your activity will be used).

In this case, when you launch your game on Android, the OS will create an instance of the Activity class for you and call its relevant callbacks (e.g: onCreate, onResume, etc).

In your code, you attempt to create an AndroidJavaObject with the name of the class you given your new Activity.

However, according to the AndroidJavaObject constructor documentation:

Construct an AndroidJavaObject based on the name of the class.

This essentially means locate the class type, allocate an object and run the specified constructor.

This means you are attempting to create another instance of your class. IIRC, you cannot instantiate an Activity class yourself as it has no public constructor (it is created for you by the Android OS).

Therefore, what happens in your case i guess is that Unity "swallows" some error and doesn't do anything.

What you'd like to do is keep some static field that stores a reference to the created activity object, and then use that to call methods on it.

See this answer for more details: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/655299/androidjavaclasscall-returns-empty-string.html

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