Why Picasso is not using imageView.getContext()?

Question

Stupid question:

if context can be obtained from imageView itself, why bother passing it explicitly? what would be wrong if Picasso did something like this:

Picasso.load(url).into(imageView);

instead of

Picasso.with(context).load(url).into(imageView);

?

Answer 1

A context is used to initialize the disk cache, load local resources, and communicate with content providers and into isn't always the action method that's invoked. There's also get() and fetch().