What is 'Context' on Android?

Question

In Android programming, what exactly is a Context class and what is it used for?

I read about it on the developer site, but I am unable to understand it

Answer 1

Context is basically for resource access and getting the environment details of the application(for application context) or activity (for activity context) or any other...

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