Apps What is Context for? - why do we use it?

[jazzninja]

Hey,
I'm not sure why we need to call Context in app programming. What does it do?
Thanks

 

[Tapirboy]

Context is the superclass for activities, services, broadcastreceivers etc and gives you fundamental functionality as startService, startActivity, sendBroadcast etc.

Read more:

Context | Android Developers