[aerogear-dev] Make MobileCore Init automatically called in Android SDK

Jose Miguel Gallas Olmedo jgallaso at redhat.com
Tue Apr 3 05:35:53 EDT 2018


@Wei I think @Daniel point is that this is a trick/workaround. We wouldn't
use this content provider to share anything but to call MobileCore.init
only.

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On 3 April 2018 at 11:16, Wei Li <weil at redhat.com> wrote:

> By reading the document, it looks like "ContentProvider" is meant to
> provide some data for other applications. If we use it for initialising the
> SDK, what data will be provided to other apps? Is there any other negative
> side effects of using this approach?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Wojciech Trocki <wtrocki at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great idea!
>> This will allow SDK to be flexible, developer friendly and more aligned
>> with typical Android patterns.
>>
>> > I don't think removing manual initialisation is too important
>>
>> It will be just side effect after we move to use Android standards like `Content
>> provider` etc.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Jose Miguel Gallas Olmedo <
>> jgallaso at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think removing manual initialisation is too important, I'd
>>> expect that from any other library. However auto-magic is way more elegant
>>> and user friendly, so +1 from me.
>>>
>>> TL;DR what Firebase does is uses a Content Provide[1] (not really
>>>> created for this) as a trick to initialize the lib before the app starts
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you provide some reference for this?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
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>>> On 29 March 2018 at 23:30, Daniel Passos <dpassos at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Revisiting some Google and Firebase stuff Summers and I realized the
>>>> Firebase Android SDK doesn’t need we do any init to the lib starts/be
>>>> configured.
>>>>
>>>> TL;DR what Firebase does is uses a Content Provide[1] (not really
>>>> created for this) as a trick to initialize the lib before the app starts
>>>>
>>>> Why Content provider?
>>>>
>>>> Because it has access to the applicationContext[2] and is called
>>>> *before* all other Android kinds of stuff in the Android lifecycle
>>>> (including Application)
>>>>
>>>> I’d like to do the same for our Android SDK and initialize the lib
>>>> using the same trick so we can provide a MobileCore.getInstance()
>>>> already configured with all the things the developer needs (Logger,
>>>> HttpLayer, Mobile Services info, etc…) without need to create an
>>>> application class or call MobileCore.init(context) anywhere and kill
>>>> all static methods we have today in MobileCore
>>>>
>>>> It will also allow us to send the default metrics before the Android
>>>> lifecycle starts the app and have some controls (when need) to know when
>>>> the app is in background and foreground, listeners possible crashes and
>>>> other things without the developer needs to call/configure anything.
>>>>
>>>> PS: This is will probably be the first step to kill the responsibility
>>>> to the MobileCore instantiate the Service Modules[3]
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content
>>>> -providers.html
>>>> [2] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Cont
>>>> entProvider.html#getContext()
>>>> [3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-796
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