Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context

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I have implemented a ListView in my Android application. I bind to this ListView using a custom subclass of the ArrayAdapter class. Inside the overridden ArrayAdapter.getView(...) method, I assign an OnClickListener. In the onClick method of the OnClickListener, I want to launch a new activity. I get the exception:

Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the  
FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?

How can I get the Context that the ListView(the current Activity) is working under?

android android-activity android-context

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You can achieve it with addFlags instead of setFlags

myIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

According to the documentation it does:

Add additional flags to the intent (or with existing flags value).

EDIT

Be careful when you are using flags that you may change the history stack as Alex Volovoy's answer says:

...avoid setting flags as it will interfere with normal flow of event and history stack.

answered 2012-11-25T08:33:40.240

Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context

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