Does the presenter having knowledge of the Activity / Context a bad idea in the MVP pattern?

Question

I\'ve been playing around with the MVP pattern for a few weeks now and I\'ve come to the point where I need context to start a service and access Shared P

Answer 1

This question was answered some time ago, and, assuming that the definition of MVP is what OP used in his code, the answer by @Jahnold is really good.

However, it should be pointed out that MVP is a high level concept, and there can be many implementations following MVP principles - there is more than one way to skin the cat.

There is another implementation of MVP, which is based on the idea that Activities in Android are not UI Elements, which designates Activity and Fragment as MVP presenters. In this configuration, MVP presenters have a direct access to Context.

By the way, even in the aforementioned implementation of MVP, I wouldn't use Context in order to get access to SharedPreferences in presenter - I would still define a wrapper class for SharedPreferences and inject it into presenter.