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Lucas Atayde
6,784 PointsWhat is context in Android?
I don't understand what context is in Android. I know we generally put "this" in the context parameter, but I don't understand what context is or what "this" is doing.
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jitan
6,241 PointsYou might find some insight here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3572463/what-is-context-in-android
Florian Goussin
8,925 Pointsthis represents the current object.
So your class is a kind of factory whose role is to build objects on the same model and then you can refer to a newly created object or instance with the keyword this.
An object is an instance of a class in which properties were assigned with fresh values.