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

[Jose Miguel Gallas Olmedo]

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,


JOSE MIGUEL GALLAS OLMEDO

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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/
> ContentProvider.html#getContext()
> [3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-796
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