How to reference “this” within anonymous listeners when using short notation?

Question

In Kotlin, is there a way to reference the listener instance when using this short notation for anonymous classes? In this case this refers to outer context (e.

Answer 1

 val animation = object : Animation() {
        override fun applyTransformation(interpolatedTime: Float, t: Transformation) {
            val layoutParam: RelativeLayout.LayoutParams? = playerView.layoutParams as RelativeLayout.LayoutParams?
            layoutParam?.topMargin = convertDpToPixel(position, this@SurahActivity).toInt()
            playerView.layoutParams = layoutParam
        }
    }

Answer 2

You can get that resolved by adding an @ActivityName in front of 'this' reference For example if your Activity name was MainActivity the solution would be:

view.setOnClickListener {
    val self: View.OnClickListener = this@MainActivity 
}

Answer 3

The term short notation for anonymous classes is not entirely correct. It's actually a short notation for anonymous functions, i.e. lambdas. Of course under the hood they are compiled to classes but from a programming language point of view, anonymous functions don't have identities and therefore it doesn't make sense to refer to their instances via this.