SDL2 android lifecycle

I am trying to modify SDL2 on android but I am running into a few issues.

I call the functions to initialize the .so and those work fine.

I am trying to wrap up the way that I call ?class SDLSurface extends
SurfaceView?

I call new and I get the constructor callback but after that, no other
calls go through.

What’s the call order from SDLmain through to setting up the class
SDLsurface on android? Can I wrap that sdlsurface class in another class
and control it from there?