What is the Context? - Android Basics 2023

In this video I'll show you what the context is in Android and I'll share the different types of contexts and their lifetime.
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  • @jayshartzer844
    @jayshartzer844 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for giving context to Context

  • @camiloiush

    @camiloiush

    Жыл бұрын

    Test

  • @amkhrjee

    @amkhrjee

    Жыл бұрын

    Someone had to say it at some point. 🤷‍♂

  • @cuatxe

    @cuatxe

    10 ай бұрын

    Is it you dad?

  • @skarloti
    @skarloti Жыл бұрын

    Android Basics 2023 should be adopted by Google! So much has been written and nothing has been said so well. Thanks for the wonderful series on behalf of all beginner Android (Kotlin) developers! 🔥

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much 🙏🙏

  • @ojtoborowei5537
    @ojtoborowei55373 ай бұрын

    Never knew what context did, but I’m happy to say this has laid a good foundation for me

  • @amavrik
    @amavrik Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Phillip! This was very helpful 👍👍👍I wish this video came out before I submitted my first app to the Google Play Store. Had struggled a lot with passing the context.

  • @MyCodingDiarie
    @MyCodingDiarie Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are a great resource for anyone learning to code. Thank you for creating it!❣

  • @bigpiglove
    @bigpiglove Жыл бұрын

    Thanks man! You did a great work already and I'm wating for more topics like these!

  • @venkatpamulapati3862
    @venkatpamulapati386227 күн бұрын

    I've read the documentation at least three times but your videos explain these concepts so much better, thanks!

  • @jishnugoyal4397
    @jishnugoyal4397 Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Waiting for more of these!

  • @viniciuscoscia
    @viniciuscoscia Жыл бұрын

    Perfect, as usual. Thank you!

  • @chimezieorji-unegbu7110
    @chimezieorji-unegbu7110 Жыл бұрын

    There's no over knowing these things. Always something new to pick. Thanks for your videos

  • @user-tf5jx6do2l
    @user-tf5jx6do2l11 ай бұрын

    Thanks! For 10 min video I got more usefull information than for the previous hours of exploring other resources

  • @theg4meover988
    @theg4meover988 Жыл бұрын

    Crystal clear explanation ! Thanks.

  • @krishnathotakura8116
    @krishnathotakura81163 ай бұрын

    Good material, concise …and great presentation!! Only suggestion I have is get rid of the annoying sound and image effect you have once in a while..maybe if the video is loading ?

  • @alirezafaraji
    @alirezafaraji Жыл бұрын

    I'm loving this playlist. keep up the great work

  • @khaxbiker
    @khaxbiker Жыл бұрын

    so long without understanding the concept of Context until watch your video. thanks!

  • @prashlovessamosa
    @prashlovessamosa Жыл бұрын

    Thank you I have just joined this series will follow up to end.

  • @SuessesSumpfhuhn
    @SuessesSumpfhuhn2 ай бұрын

    I love your videos! Thanks so much !!!

  • @BlackSkyCrew
    @BlackSkyCrew Жыл бұрын

    Great free leson. Thanks!

  • @mohammedmustafaali6716
    @mohammedmustafaali67169 ай бұрын

    Goldmine of Information ! I am collecting money to enroll to your Personal Training, hope I do it soon ! 😄

  • @onmoveonmove226
    @onmoveonmove226 Жыл бұрын

    thank you Philip, this is great video about Viewmodel

  • @marekwalica4418
    @marekwalica4418 Жыл бұрын

    again very cleary explained, thanks very much

  • @Radiokot42
    @Radiokot4211 ай бұрын

    It was so interesting to see how Context retrieved in Presentation being shown on the secondary display is different from the one retrieved in its parent Activity which is shown on the main display - they had different resource configuration, so on the smaller secondary display hdpi drawables were used, while on the main display they were xxhdpi 🙂

  • @spyro2008
    @spyro200828 күн бұрын

    Thank you a lot!❤️

  • @rakibhasan_
    @rakibhasan_ Жыл бұрын

    You're the best, bro! This was very helpful. Thanks for sharing knowledge...

  • @mahdiporkar236
    @mahdiporkar236 Жыл бұрын

    Great job Philip

  • @onmoveonmove226
    @onmoveonmove226 Жыл бұрын

    what a greet explanation of Context,thank you

  • @sanjaybhatikar
    @sanjaybhatikar Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, this helps. ❤

  • @josh3155
    @josh3155 Жыл бұрын

    thanks for amazing topic

  • @cristianlopes1930
    @cristianlopes193010 ай бұрын

    That was an amazing explanation...

  • @MeriemZem-lf8zx
    @MeriemZem-lf8zx Жыл бұрын

    very well explained!

  • @imamyusupbachtiar5461
    @imamyusupbachtiar5461 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a ton, he's better than my professor

  • @mircodev
    @mircodev Жыл бұрын

    A very good explanation of a more "tricky" topic

  • @siddhartharoychowdhury2489
    @siddhartharoychowdhury248911 ай бұрын

    Such clarity on Android...you will only find in this channel!

  • @tanveerabbas26
    @tanveerabbas26 Жыл бұрын

    thanks for such informative video

  • @himanshu.acharya
    @himanshu.acharya Жыл бұрын

    I am learning Android development and now my basics are very much clear but when I try to read official documentation it still feels tough Please make a dedicated video on how to actually go through it

  • @tryscope8731

    @tryscope8731

    8 ай бұрын

    Yeah the Android docs suck

  • @ahmedelbehiry1638
    @ahmedelbehiry16387 ай бұрын

    great explanation😄

  • @hpmusicbytes
    @hpmusicbytes Жыл бұрын

    Great!!

  • @achmadsyarif5129
    @achmadsyarif5129 Жыл бұрын

    thanks Philip

  • @veda1015
    @veda1015 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Philipp , can you make a video about state flow?

  • @govindnadharia6966
    @govindnadharia6966 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative Video. what theme you are using in android studio ?

  • @galaxiegalaxie5003
    @galaxiegalaxie5003 Жыл бұрын

    Great content as always thank you😊, could you provide us an example,how we could get context in kotlin and compose multiplatform.For example i want to access context from shared common with expect and actual.Could you recommend any suggestion.For example,scenario , we are using KVault it needs context for android and no need of context for ios while calling inside from shared common with compose multiplatform

  • @michaelk7942
    @michaelk7942 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Philip for the informative video! Any chance you could discuss how to access the context in a Fragment? If I am correct, requireContext() should be used. However, sometimes I noticed that the Fragment might not be attached to a context, leading to an IllegalStateException. It would be nice, if you could discuss how to use context in a Fragment in general, what context to use, and what issues may arise. Thanks again for the great video!

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    requireContext is correct, but the Fragment needs to be attached to the activity, so you can't use it in a global variable for example without lazy

  • @lachlanvass7704
    @lachlanvass7704 Жыл бұрын

    What Android studio theme does Phillip use?

  • @user-ju5qp1ii6d
    @user-ju5qp1ii6d5 ай бұрын

    Super

  • @rijalmyd
    @rijalmyd Жыл бұрын

    What is the differences between requireContext(), requireActivity(), context, and activity in fragment? And when do we use it?

  • @CodingExplorer35
    @CodingExplorer354 ай бұрын

    nice video

  • @neoplaygame
    @neoplaygame Жыл бұрын

    Nice video! and another reason to use activity context over application context is when user changed system language, only activity will be recreated and the application won't. so if you use getString() with activity context will have the updated language and application context won't. correct me if I am wrong.

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, which context doesn't matter there since it's just used to retrieve a resource

  • @neoplaygame

    @neoplaygame

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PhilippLackner oh you are right, my case should be updating an in-app language but the application context is not updated correctly

  • @parth3075
    @parth3075 Жыл бұрын

    legend

  • @exploringgodscountry
    @exploringgodscountry3 ай бұрын

    I wish you had this in Java... I'm not a fan of Kotlin. Took your course on it but trying to unlearn 24 years of programming with more traditional languages such as C based and Java is quite difficult.

  • @saddam_howladar_yt
    @saddam_howladar_yt Жыл бұрын

    please make a playlist about Ios Basics 2023 as well it will be very helpful who want to start KMM

  • @bililancun8867
    @bililancun8867 Жыл бұрын

    How did you make your @s green?

  • @ArthurKhazbs
    @ArthurKhazbs10 ай бұрын

    What should we do if we need to use activity Context in our ViewModel, but don't want the memory leaks that come with referencing the Context in ViewModel's field?

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    10 ай бұрын

    Don't do it, there's no reason to

  • @ArthurKhazbs

    @ArthurKhazbs

    9 ай бұрын

    So the answer to my question is: We should learn architecture better. After watching more of your videos, I'm starting to understand! Thank you!

  • @valik1495
    @valik1495 Жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @abada-s
    @abada-s Жыл бұрын

    Do you know why there is no context in desktop apps, for example all I need to read/write a file is to create a File object and pass the path then create something wraps that File object

  • @cursedfunction

    @cursedfunction

    Жыл бұрын

    Context, as described in this video, is an Android specific paradigm. You could create your own concept of “Context” in a desktop application.

  • @huskar1u3
    @huskar1u3 Жыл бұрын

    7:28 Why viewModel isn't destroyed before the activity is destroyed? Wouldn't we avoid a memory leak, in this case a context?

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    The whole purpose of a viewmodel is to outlive the life cycle of the activity, check the previous video 😄

  • @huskar1u3

    @huskar1u3

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@PhilippLackner Thank you! So, in this case the memory leak will occur only if we change the screen orientation and the activity is not permanently destroyed, right? But if we navigate away, the viewModel will be destroyed along with the activity?

  • @LEEJIHUN
    @LEEJIHUN Жыл бұрын

    0:57 it comes to 'exync'? what exync mean?, awrote this in the auto-generated subtitles, but I wonder what words he actually said.

  • @jayshartzer844

    @jayshartzer844

    Жыл бұрын

    "exact" "When it comes to exact use cases..."

  • @LEEJIHUN

    @LEEJIHUN

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jayshartzer844 thx :>

  • @jopadjr
    @jopadjr Жыл бұрын

    167th...Thanks Philipp

  • @tomcat77798
    @tomcat77798 Жыл бұрын

    Waht's your Android Studio Theme?

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    Xcode dark

  • @kshitijofthejune
    @kshitijofthejune Жыл бұрын

    7:07 Imaæginnn

  • @vectoralphaSec
    @vectoralphaSec Жыл бұрын

    Considering the traditional way of android development is dying and being phased out for the modern android development way. Are these 2023 Android Basics videos taking that into account?

  • @PhilippLackner

    @PhilippLackner

    Жыл бұрын

    The things I teach here are fundamental about Android and haven't changed in the past 5 years

  • @jayshartzer844

    @jayshartzer844

    Жыл бұрын

    Most Android jobs have to deal with both legacy and modern development tools and techniques. Also, Context is used everywhere.

  • @abacaabaca8131
    @abacaabaca8131 Жыл бұрын

    From my understanding "native android developer" means somebody that can transform his code into the selective android processor' machine code. For example, in android, the CPU could be ARM architecture, or other architecture. So, their technique might differ for different CPU, like what library to link etc. Not to mention that android have different type of operating system too if not mistaken. But for us that knows kotlin, we can let JVM settle this issue of handling different CPU architecture. We just focus on our code testing, the unit testing, android testing. But honestly I wanted to learn Gradle first without android studio only Gradle and kotlin, and try to use different dependencies out there. Currently working on to parse object file for 3d rendering without tutorial. The only guidance is from C++.

  • @solarseraph

    @solarseraph

    10 ай бұрын

    Quick note for you: a native Android developer is anyone who writes an app for Android only, directly with Android's Java or Kotlin libraries. A non-native developer would write code in a framework like Flutter or React that cross compiles to Android/iOS/other, and abstracts away the details of Android-specific concepts like Context or the onCreate/onDestroy lifecycle. It is "native" with respect to the operating system, not the hardware- the same could be said for a native Windows or iOS app. Hope this helps!

  • @pyaesonehan19
    @pyaesonehan193 ай бұрын

  • @user-ju5qp1ii6d
    @user-ju5qp1ii6d5 ай бұрын

    6:25

  • @expeknow
    @expeknow11 ай бұрын

    Learnt too many things from you

  • @user-oz4bg4nz3d
    @user-oz4bg4nz3d Жыл бұрын

    I came here to learn but now only watching your videos beacuse you are very handsome 😅 charming

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    @Menteri_00811 ай бұрын

    Tidak masalah ANDROID GENOSIDA di Uji Coba di Indonesia,.kalau di butuhkan akan di perluas di seluruh negara dunia.😮