Context.startService(intent) or startService(intent)

Question

What is the difference between Context.startService(intent) and startService(intent) and does it matter which one is used?

Answer 1

There is only one startService() method. startService() is a method on the Context class, available to all subclasses of Context, like Activity or Service.

Answer 2

As Commonsware said there is only one startService(). That is Context.startService(intent).

Your main activity program itself is an instance of Context and you do not need to explicity call the method (startService) with a Context.

It is like calling a method of a class within the class itself.