Agreed. For UI related cases that you might want to use that Context, the application one is not suited.
Use depending on what you are trying to do :) On Oct 11, 11:13 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Dimitris <[email protected]> wrote: > > The context class is abstract. When you say context do you mean an > > Activity context? I suggest you look at the Application class (see > > getApplicationContext()) and pass that instead. It is much much safer > > from memory leaks rather than passing the Activity around. > > Bear in mind, though, that the Context returned by > getApplicationContext() is not going to be suitable in all cases. I > and others have run into problems with this related to UI operations. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
