dagger.hilt.android.internal.managers.ViewComponentManager$FragmentContextWrapper cannot be cast to android.app.Activity

I'm using a third-party library that has some custom view implementations. In the implementation, they call `Utils.showSoftKeyboard(context as Activity)`. This, along with using the fragment as an @AndroidEntryPoint causes the following exception:

`java.lang.ClassCastException: dagger.hilt.android.internal.managers.ViewComponentManager$FragmentContextWrapper cannot be cast to android.app.Activity`.

Is there any way to fix this without altering the third-party library?

If the third-party library has an issue tracker, it's a good idea to raise an issue about this. There is no guarantee that the `context` of a `View` is an `Activity`: the same problem can be caused just as easily by an `android:theme` attribute in the custom view or any ancestor.

If you don't inflate any `@AndroidEntryPoint` views in your fragment, you can work around this by getting a `LayoutInflater` directly from the activity context.

```
override fun onCreateView(
inflater: LayoutInflater,
container: ViewGroup?,
savedInstanceState: Bundle?
): View? {
val baseInflater = LayoutInflater.from(requireActivity()) // NOT context
// ...
}

Without Hilt Dependencies we can access parent activity as below

(context as ContextWrapper).baseContext

It might be late for your problem but here's a solution which might help others having the same problem.
You basically should check the context type before trying to cast it.

val mContext = if (context is ViewComponentManager.FragmentContextWrapper)
context.baseContext
else
context


Inspired by [this][1] answer.


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