WinDev Mobile (Android) - Passing the correct context for AppCompatActivity

[TheOneAtFault]

Ahoy hoay!

Bare with me on this one.

So some background; I am working in a development environment called WinDev, the mobile edition and it uses a language called WLanguage. It's handy for cross platform development, think Xamarin, and they make use of a customized android/gradle(not sure what the correct terminology is to use) and allow you to write Java procedures for some custom development.

What I am trying to achieve:
I have an external .aar library that I want to make use of. Now the library makes use of the AppCompatActivity class and on of the methods required an instance of this to be passed as a parameter:

public Example(AppCompatActivity var1, boolean var2, ServiceConfigurationEnum var3) {
}

The trick is, The Android version used by WinDev does not seem to have support for the "android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;" library.

So I need to pass an instance of context from WinDev but the only two methods I can use to get some form of context are "getApplicationContext()" and "getCurrentActivity()"

From what I understand I should be able to use "getCurrentActivity()" and pass that to my .aar library where I then cast the "Activity" to "AppCompatActivity".

From WinDev:

imports ...
public static String Beta(){
    //Context context = getApplicationContext();
    Activity activity = getCurrentActivity();
   
    Oscar oscar = new Oscar(activity);  
    String response = oscar.run();
    return response;
}

In my .aar:

public Oscar(Activity activity) {
    AppCompatActivity altContext = (AppCompatActivity) activity; //error occurs here
    blob = new Example(altContext, true, ServiceConfigurationEnum.UAT);
}

But this results in an exception stating the following:
"Failed resolution of: Landroidx/appcompat/app/AppCompatActivity; "

Now I am quite stuck and can't find my a way around this. If someone can advise me on this or point out my mistake, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Sysem]

Unfortunately, if WinDev doesn't support `AppCompatActivity`, you're not going to be able to do what you want. Do you really need an Activity and not just the context associated with it?

 

[TheOneAtFault]

Looking at the 3rd party(think I forgot to mention this) library, it makes use of both. If I understand correctly.

private final AppCompatActivity _activity;
private final Context _context;

public Factory(AppCompatActivity var1, boolean var2, ServiceConfigurationEnum var3) {
        this._activity = var1;
        this._context = var1.getBaseContext();
...       
}

But if it is not possible to get around the lack of support for the "AppCompatActivity" library, then I'll look at other alternatives.

 

[Sysem]

Never heard of WinDev, but I assume they're not supporting newer Android versions (or haven't included support v7 as a dependency). In fact, the support libs have been deprecated in favor of androidx libs, so other libraries might conflict if they've updated but WinDev hasn't