Get Context in a Service

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user123321 picture user123321 · Jun 22, 2011 · Viewed 137.3k times · Source

Is there any reliable way to get a Context from a Service?

I want to register a broadcast receiver for ACTION_PHONE_STATE_CHANGED but I don't need my app to always get this information, so I don't put it in the Manifest.

However, I can't have the broadcast receiver be killed by the GC when I need this information so I'm registering the broadcast receiver in a Service.

Hence, I need a Context to to call registerReceiver(). When I no longer need the ACTION_PHONE_STATE_CHANGED I unregister it.

Any tips?

Answer

mibollma picture mibollma · Jun 22, 2011

Service is a Context

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