You're right, that was bad advice on my part, although I never had any problems with getApplicationContext() myself.
On Apr 3, 9:57 pm, "~ TreKing" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Vladimir <[email protected]>wrote: > > > "this" here points to your OnClickListener instance, while you need > > Context. Try "new Intent(getApplicationContext(), ...)" instead > > No, DO NOT use getApplicationContext() ... EVER. It causes nothing but > problems. > Use whatever context is currently available and valid. In this case, you > have a view coming in to the function so you can use v.getContext(). > Of if this code is an inner class inside an Activity, you can do > MyActivity.this. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
