makepad-android-state 0.1.0

Exposes access to Makepad's context states on Android
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makepad-android-state

This crate is responsible for holding Makepad's Android-specific context states. It exists solely to allow external crates to access those Android states without depending on the entirety of Makepad.

These two states are:

  1. The JavaVM instance initialized by the JNI layer.
  • This cannot be set by foreign code outside this crate, as it is only ever set once during the lifetime of the app process.
  1. The current Makepad Activity instance.
  • This can be set by foreign code outside this crate, as the underlying Android platform may tear down and reconstruct the activity instance multiple times during the app's lifetime.
  • However, for safety reasons, we only permit a single caller to obtain the private "set_activity" function, which ensures that only the internal Makepad framework can set the activity instance.

Usage

Note: you probably want to use the robius-android-env crate instead of using this crate directly, or an even higher-level crate that depends on robius-android-env.

External users of this crate should only care about two functions:

  1. [get_java_vm()]: returns a pointer to the JavaVM instance, through which you can obtain the JNI environment.
  2. [get_activity()]: returns a pointer to the current Makepad Activity instance.

All other functions are intended for Makepad-internal use only, and will not be useful for external users.