How to access Activity UI from my class?

Question

I have an activity which creates an object instance of my class:

file MyActivity.java:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    TextView myView = (Text         


        

Answer 1

Could work using an interface

file MyActivity.java:

public class MyActivity extends Activity implements Points.MyListener {

    TextView myView;
    ... onCreate(...){
        myView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.myView);
        Points myPoints  = new Points();

        //pass in MyActivity's instance of the listener
        myPoints.addListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateTextView(String message){
        myView.setMessage(message);
    }
}

file Points.java:

public class Points {

    public Points(){

    }

    public interface MyListener{
        void updateTextView(String message);
    }
    MyListener myListener;

    public void addListener(MyListener listener){
        myListener = listener;
    }

    public void updatePoints(){
        //do some operations in calculatePoints()
        String points = calculatePoints();
        //update views using MyActivity's implementation of updateTextView()
        myListener.updateTextView(points);
    }

}

Doing it this way, events can be fired / messages sent, for lack of better terms, from the external class to update the Activity UI. This might be overkill if all sb need is to call a method in the Points class that returns something