Context Anti-Patterns

The reason why you need to know what Context you are using in different circumstances is because there are several anti-patterns when working with Context. Some of these will result in warnings in the IDE, but not always, as sometimes the IDE cannot identify that you are implementing an anti-pattern.

We will explore these anti-patterns later in the book:

• Avoiding static references to component Context objects
• Trying to use Application for everything
• Assuming that a Context is always of some specific type