Using context in a fragment

Question

How can I get the context in a fragment?

I need to use my database whose constructor takes in the context, but getApplicationContext() and Fragmen

Answer 1

For Kotlin you can use context directly in fragments. But in some cased you will find an error like

Type mismatch: inferred type is Context? but Context was expected

for that you can do this

val ctx = context ?: return
textViewABC.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(ctx, android.R.color.black))

Answer 2

Inside fragment for kotlin sample would help someone

textViewStatus.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context!!, R.color.red))

if you use databinding;

bindingView.textViewStatus.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context!!, R.color.red))

Where bindingView is initialized in onCreateView like this

private lateinit var bindingView: FragmentBookingHistoryDetailBinding

bindingView = DataBindingUtil.inflate(inflater, R.layout.your_layout_xml, container, false)

Answer 3

You can use getActivity() or getContext in Fragment.

Documentation

/**
 * Return the {@link FragmentActivity} this fragment is currently associated with.
 * May return {@code null} if the fragment is associated with a {@link Context}
 * instead.
 *
 * @see #requireActivity()
 */
@Nullable
final public FragmentActivity getActivity() {
    return mHost == null ? null : (FragmentActivity) mHost.getActivity();
}

and

 /**
     * Return the {@link Context} this fragment is currently associated with.
     *
     * @see #requireContext()
     */
    @Nullable
    public Context getContext() {
        return mHost == null ? null : mHost.getContext();
    }

Pro tip

Check always if(getActivity!=null) because it can be null when fragment is not attached to activity. Sometimes doing long operation in fragment (like fetching data from rest api) takes some time. and if user navigate to another fragment. Then getActivity will be null. And you will get NPE if you did not handle it.

Answer 4

getContext() came in API 23. Replace it with getActivity() everywhere in the code.

See if it fixes the error. Try to use methods which are in between the target and minimun API level, else this error will come in place.

Answer 5

Use fragments from Support Library -

android.support.v4.app.Fragment

and then override

void onAttach (Context context) {
  this.context = context;
}

This way you can be sure that context will always be a non-null value.

Answer 6

The simple way is to use getActivity(). But I think the major confusion of using the getActivity() method to get the context here is a null pointer exception.

For this, first check with the isAdded() method which will determine whether it's added or not, and then we can use the getActivity() to get the context of Activity.