How to use getApplicationContext in BroadcastReceiver class?

Question

I am using the broadcaster class to listen to sms messages using this code

package com.escortme.basic;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
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Answer 1

One reason for getting the application context would be to get the the WIFI_SERVICE as it must be looked up on the Application context or memory will leak on devices < Android N.

As Someone Somewhere once said, within onReceive(), just use context.getApplicationContext().