android_app->activity->internalDataPath still NULL in 2.3.8 NDK r8

Question

To give spec on where i tested this, HTC Desire S, Android 2.3.5 and ndk-r8.

I am having issues in ndk-r7b and in ndk-r8 accessing the local read write directories using

Answer 1

The following works from NDK without use of Java:

const char* path = app->activity->internalDataPath;
if (!path) {
    JNIEnv* jni;
    app->activity->vm->AttachCurrentThread(&jni, NULL);

    jclass activityClass = jni->GetObjectClass(app->activity->clazz);
    jmethodID getFilesDir = jni->GetMethodID(activityClass, "getFilesDir", "()Ljava/io/File;");
    jobject fileObject = jni->CallObjectMethod(app->activity->clazz, getFilesDir);
    jclass fileClass = jni->GetObjectClass(fileObject);
    jmethodID getAbsolutePath = jni->GetMethodID(fileClass, "getAbsolutePath", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
    jobject pathObject = jni->CallObjectMethod(fileObject, getAbsolutePath);
    path = jni->GetStringUTFChars((jstring)pathObject, NULL);

    jni->DeleteLocalRef(pathObject);
    jni->DeleteLocalRef(fileClass);
    jni->DeleteLocalRef(fileObject);
    jni->DeleteLocalRef(activityClass);

    app->activity->vm->DetachCurrentThread();
}