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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Adding Users Using Parse.com Creating an Account and App on Parse.com

Posted by evgeniylischuk
evgeniylischuk
5,265 Points

Why do we have to create separate class (RibbitApplication) beside our Activity?

As I see it, we create Activity with OnCreate method in it. What for we need to replace it with new class RibbitApplication.onCreate()? Why we can't use Activity instead?

2 Answers

Ben Deitch
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Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

The short answer is that we want to use the Parse SDK, and that's what the Parse documentation tells us to do :). The longer answer is that activities can be started, stopped, and destroyed all while the application is still running. For example, if you have an app that switches between activities you could end up calling each activity's onCreate method several times. By putting the Parse initialization code in a class that extends Application we can be sure that it only gets called once when the app is created.

evgeniylischuk
evgeniylischuk
5,265 Points
evgeniylischuk
evgeniylischuk
5,265 Points

Understood. Thank you very much