Accessing application context from TestSuite in Setup() before calling getActivity()

Question

I have an Activity that pulls an object from an Application extended class (application context) from within the OnCreate() method.

Answer 1

Always use this.getInstrumentation().getTargetContext() to access the context of the application.

this.getInstrumentation().getTargetContext().getApplicationContext() is not same as this.getInstrumentation().getTargetContext()

I was running the automation in 4.0.X versions and most of the time getApplicationContext() was returning null context.