Get Activity name dynamically - android

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evanmcdonnal picture evanmcdonnal · May 17, 2012 · Viewed 96.3k times · Source

I'd like to get the name of the current Activity to be sent along in the URI of an HttpRequest. Is there a way to do this without referring specifically to the Activity?

I know I can do myActivity.class.toString() but this is just a less efficient way of hard coding "myActivity" since I'm making a static reference to my Activity. Is there a more general way to do this using something like 'this' (which btw doesn't actually work here because it returns more information than what's desired).

Answer

Kevin Coppock picture Kevin Coppock · May 17, 2012

Use this.getClass().getSimpleName() to get the name of the Activity.

From the comments, if you're in the context of an OnClickListener (or other inner class), specify the class manually:

MainActivity.class.getSimpleName()

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