Resources inside Loader's loadInBackground()?

Question

As far as I know, I can't hold reference to the activity's context inside a Loader.

Is there a safe way to get resources inside Loader's loadInBackground() method?

Answer 1

See the docs of the constructor of Loader:

Loader (Context context)

Stores away the application context associated with context. Since Loaders can be used across multiple activities it's dangerous to store the context directly; always use getContext() to retrieve the Loader's Context, don't use the constructor argument directly. The Context returned by getContext() is safe to use across Activity instances.

And the implementation:

    public Loader(Context context) {
        mContext = context.getApplicationContext();
    }

    /**
     * @return an application context retrieved from the Context passed to the constructor.
     */
    public Context getContext() {
        return mContext;
    }

So, within loadInBackground() you are free to get the resources from the context that Loader class retains, because it's an application context.