IMHO the original sin is that this Context is a God object: you need it for almost everything and it knows too much. That’s the first anti-pattern
Android SDK should have had a good Dependency Injection framework from the beginning.
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IMHO the original sin is that this Context is a God object: you need it for almost everything and it knows too much. That’s the first anti-pattern
Android SDK should have had a good Dependency Injection framework from the beginning.
To clarify, I was not claiming that this was the only billion-dollar mistake in Android, just the one I wanted to zoom into :)