android - Get Context in a Service

Service is a Context

Service extends ContextWrapper which extends Context. Hence the Service is a Context. Use 'this' keyword in the service.

1. Service extends ContextWrapper
2. ContextWrapper extends Context

So....

Context context = this; 

(in Service or Activity Class)

Since Service is a Context, the variable context must be this:

DataBaseManager dbm = Utils.getDataManager(this);    

just in case someone is getting NullPointerException, you need to get the context inside onCreate().

Service is a Context, so do this:

@Override public void onCreate() {     super.onCreate();     context = this; }