Hey everyone! This isn't directly related to Kotli...

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[אליהו הדס]

Hey everyone! This isn't directly related to Kotlin, but I thought it might help those of us working with KMP.

I often struggle when implementing Android-specific functions that need the application context. There are many methods online, but most add too much boilerplate. To solve this problem, I wrote a library called Android Context Provider, which makes it so much easier.

It initializes automatically via ContentProvider, and you can call ContextProvider.getContext() to get the application context (not an activity context) from anywhere. No extra code, lightweight, and dependency-free.

If you use KMP and need Android-specific context functions, check it out!

https://github.com/kdroidFilter/AndroidContextProvider

[Hristijan]

Or you can use AndroidX start-up

internal lateinit var applicationContext: Context
    private set

internal data object ContextProviderInitializer

class ContextProvider: Initializer<ContextProviderInitializer> {
    override fun create(context: Context): ContextProviderInitializer {
        applicationContext = context.applicationContext
        return ContextProviderInitializer
    }

override fun dependencies(): List<Class<out Initializer<*>>> = emptyList()
}

[אליהו הדס]

Thanks! I hadn't thought about using AndroidX Startup for this. It's definitely a clean way to handle initialization. I'll give it a closer look!

[Azim Ansari]

Dependency-free? Isn’t your library itself becomes dependency to others?

[אליהו הדס]

I mean there are no dependencies in my library, check https://github.com/kdroidFilter/AndroidContextProvider/blob/master/lib/build.gradle.kts