When to call activity context OR application context?

Question

There has been a lot of posting about what these two contexts are.. But I\'m still not getting it quite right

As I understand it so far: Each is an instance of its c

Answer 1

Two great examples of when you should use Activity context vs. the Application context are when displaying either a Toast message or a built-in Dialog message as using the Application context will cause an exception:

ProgressDialog.show(this, ....);

or

Toast t = Toast.makeText(this,....);

Both of these need information from the Activity context that is not provided in the Application context.