How to call a MainActivity method from ViewHolder in RecyclerView.Adapter?

Question

In a simple app project at GitHub I have only 2 custom Java-files:

1. MainActivity.java contains Bluetooth- and UI-related source code
2. DeviceListAdapter.

Answer 1

To keep your classes decoupled, I'd suggest defining an interface on your adapter, something like:

public interface OnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener {
    void onBluetoothDeviceClicked(String deviceAddress);
}

Then add a setter for this in your adapter:

private OnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener mBluetoothClickListener;

public void setOnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener(OnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener l) {
    mBluetoothClickListener = l;
}

Then internally, in your ViewHolder's onClick():

if (mBluetoothClickListener != null) {
    final String addresss = deviceAddress.getText().toString();
    mBluetoothClickListener.onBluetoothDeviceClicked(address);
}

Then just have your MainActivity pass in a listener to the Adapter:

mDeviceListAdapter.setOnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener(new OnBluetoothDeviceClickedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onBluetoothDeviceClicked(String deviceAddress) {
        confirmConnection(deviceAddress);
    }
});

This way you can reuse the adapter later without it being tied to that particular behavior.