Access android context in ndk application

Question

Is there any way in which I can pass/get an object of android context in my ndk appliation. I want to use SharedPreferences in my ndk application via jni interf

Answer 1

Looks like things have changes recently and the solution above and few others posted on other SO posts didn't work for me. After few tries I was able to make following solution work. My goal was to pass Context Object to JNI and get absolute storage path.

void Java_com_path_to_my_class_jniInit(JNIEnv* env, jobject thiz, jobject contextObject) {

    try {
         //Get Context Class descriptor
         jclass contextClass = env->FindClass("android/content/Context");
         //Get methodId from Context class
         jmethodID getFilesDirMethodId = env->GetMethodID(contextClass,"getFilesDir","()Ljava/io/File;");

         //Call method on Context object which is passed in
         jobject fileObject = env->CallObjectMethod(contextObject,getFilesDirMethodId);

         //Get File class descriptor
         jclass fileClass = env->FindClass("java/io/File");
         //Get handle to the method that is to be called
         jmethodID absolutePathMethodId = env->GetMethodID(fileClass,"getAbsolutePath","()Ljava/lang/String;");
         //Call the method using fileObject
         jstring stringObject = (jstring)env->CallObjectMethod(fileObject,absolutePathMethodId);
      }
      catch(exception& ex){
            JNIExceptionHelper::throwException(env, ex.what());
            return;
      }
}