How do I force a polymorphic call to the super method?

Question

I have an init method that is used and overridden through out an extensive heirarchy. Each init call however extends on the work that the previous did. So naturally, I would

Answer 1

Nowadays you can annotate your method with @CallSuper. This will Lint check that any overrides to that method calls super(). Here's an example:

@CallSuper
protected void onAfterAttached(Activity activity) {
    if (activity instanceof ActivityMain) {
        mainActivity = (ActivityMain) activity;
    }
}

In the example above, any methods in descendant classes that override onAfterAttached but do not call super will make Lint raise an error.