Question

I am creating an Android Class library that makes calls to an internal REST API and also utilizes Android’s Geocoder class (specifically getFromLocation()) which requires Context. I was planning on making the library an IntentService to allow for it to be run asynchronously, but I can’t figure out how to handle Context (the GeoLoc call is in a separate class that is part of the library that the IntentService calls).

My question is, how do I obtain context necessary to instantiate android.location.Geocoder from within an IntentService?

Answer 1

Every Service is a Context. You can use this or getApplicationContext().