Opinion Required: Should I use context or activity to start a service from a fragment?

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At August 4, 2021, 5:13pm, Andr0id asked:

Hi All,

A apologies for a very trivial question.
I want to understand what is difference between the following calls when invoked from a fragment:-

1. context?.startService(Intent(context, SomeService::class.java))
2. requireActivity().startService(Intent(requireActivity(), SomeService::class.java))

The most obvious difference that I can think about is that if the fragment is not attached to an activity when the Point 2 call is made, then the app would crash.
To avoid such crashes I can use the call mentioned in Point 1.
That being said, is there any reason then that justifies the starting of a service as described in point 2?

Thanks

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At August 4, 2021, 6:22pm, mmurphy replied:

If the fragment is not attached to an activity, the second would crash and the first would just not do anything (as context probably is null).

Nothing comes to mind.

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At August 4, 2021, 8:51pm, Andr0id replied:

Thanks @mmurphy for the quick response.