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nhaarman
nhaarman

Reputation: 100468

Use of Context to start another Activity

To start an Activity you need an Intent, like:

Intent i = new Intent(context, class)

So to fill in the context parameter, a couple of options are available:

And I'm sure there are one or two more options. These options all appear in some sort of tutorial, one uses the first, the next uses the third option.

So which one should I use? Does it even matter? Is it different for different cases?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 14713

Answers (3)

Lalit Poptani
Lalit Poptani

Reputation: 67296

Yes its different for different cases,

It depends on the scope. Suppose if you are creating a method in a global class that extends Application to create a Toast that is used in every class of your Application you can use getApplicationContext() to create it.

If you want to create a view that is restricted to that particular Activity you can use Activity.this

Also if you want to create an AlertDialog in some inner class say AsyncTask, then you have to use Activity.this, because the AlertDialog is to be linked to Activity itself.

Also don't use getBaseContext() just use the Context that you are having. For getting further information for the same you can see this Answer.

So, the answer to the real question is better to use Activity.this to start a new Activity. 

Intent intent = new Intent(Current_Activity.this, Calling.class);
startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: 17

jeet
jeet

Reputation: 29199

They are different for sure. These are different contexts, and should be used with the least possible scope(context).

For example if we can use Activity's Context instead of ApplicationContext, one should use the activity context, same applies to application context, and base context.

Upvotes: 4

FabianCook
FabianCook

Reputation: 20587

You do it like this....

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClass(MainActivity.this, SecondActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: -2

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