Can't make static reference to non-static method ( Android getApplicationContext() )

I have been storing a global variable that's needed across Activities in my Android app by using a subclass of android.app.Application as explained by Soonil (in How to declare global variables in Android?). The approach looks like this: ``` class MyApp extends Application { private String myState; public String getState(){ return myState; } public void setState(String s){ myState = s; } } class Blah extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle b){ ... MyApp appState = ((MyApp)getApplicationContext()); String state = appState.getState(); ... } } ``` Up to this point, this approach has worked fine for accessing the global variable from any of my Activities. But today using the same approach, I got the following error: ``` Cannot make a static reference to the non-static method getApplicationContext() from the type ContextWrapper ``` The key difference from before is that the new Activity is actually a Fragment (SherlockFragmentActivity, to be precise). Any ideas why can't I access appState as I have before, and is there a good workaround? Many thanks. EDIT: Good catch, Matt B. It turns out the place I'm actually calling getApplicationContext() is inside another class. Here's the calling point: ``` public class MyActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity { public static class AccountListFragment extends SherlockListFragment { MyApp appState = ((MyApp)getApplicationContext()); ... } ... } ``` Also, as noted below, the error went away when I changed the call to ``` MyApp appState = ((MyApp)getActivity().getApplicationContext()); ```