Support RN 0.29+: use getCurrentActivity instead of passing a reference to the activity

[kmjennison]

React Native 0.29 moves getPackages() into MainApplication.java. To support 0.29, we should extend ReactContextBaseJavaModule and use getCurrentActivity() to get a reference when needed rather than requiring one at construction time.

See:
facebook/react-native@49f20f4#commitcomment-17965418

[andy9775]

Did you even manage to get it working?

I tried running this package on RN 0.30.0 and it tells me that getPackages cannot be overriden because the method does not exist in the parent class. Further, if I add new NotificationPackage(this) to my MainApplication.java file it throws a wrong number of arguments error (NotificationPackage constructor is not expecting an argument).

[kmjennison]

@andy9775 No, I haven't had time to work on this yet. We're still running an older version of RN until our dependencies work with RN >0.28.

Note that you won't be able to reference the activity in MainApplication.java with this, because MainApplication is not an activity like ReactActivity.java was. This library has to change, not just the way you're integrating it into your app.

Here's an example of a PR from another React Native library that fixed this problem:
https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation/pull/85/files

To use this library now, you can run an older version of RN, or if you have the time, submit a PR for this library.

[andy9775]

Ok thanks for the link.