Context in android

Question

i am a newbie.Please explain what all things are passed through a context.Like when constructing an object for the following class..

public class myclass{

public myclass (Context context){....} }

Answer 1

You get a lot of possibilities to check for or change System or application properties. You will find a detailed version of all the functions that are available with the context in the api documentation of android:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html

So you will be able for example to start a service (to run part of the application in the background) through context.startService(Intent service). You'll need to pass an Intent (if you don't know what an intent is I would read the Dev Guide: http:**developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html first. You could do that anyway, there are plenty of good descriptions and examples.).

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