The four stages of Android UI Enlightenment: 0) You dutifully use getApplicationContext() his Activity to pass along to the SDK. 1) You realize you don't NEED to call getApplicationContext() from your Activity to pass along, 'this' should work. 2) You realize it is WRONG to call getApplicationContext() from your Activity to pass along, because that's not the right context to pass along -- your Activity is. 3) You wonder why the documentation and various failing examples keep saying to use getApplicationContext()? 4) I am still stuck at stage 3. Can you enlighten me?
Really, can't someone take a half-hour and go through all the occurrences of getApplicationContext() in documentation, Javadoc, and examples, and fix them? Except for the Javadoc for getApplicationContext(), nearly all occurrences should probably be 'this'. On Feb 9, 1:32 pm, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, André <pha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Context mContext = getApplicationContext(); > > You're probably seeing something about a BadToken in the debug log, yes? > DO NOT use getApplicationContext(). Use your current activity or the context > from one of your views. > > I swear someone runs into this every single day ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
