I have stripped down my functions for simplicity:

public static int countLines(String fileName, Activity activity) throws IOException {

 BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(activity.getAssets().open(fileName))); 


 return 3;

}

I am calling it from here:

private CharSequence RandomRead() throws IOException { int numberLines = countLines("data.txt", ??????);

    return "Success"

}

In the call to countLines("data.txt", ??????), what do I put as the argument for the Activity? I've Googled all night and I can find no examples of an actual call to a function where Activity is an argument. (Lots of examples actually using 'activity', but no calls to the example functions).

Thanks!