What’s “tools:context” in Android layout files?

This is the activity the tools UI editor uses to render your layout preview. It is documented here:

This attribute declares which activity this layout is associated with by default. This enables features in the editor or layout preview that require knowledge of the activity, such as what the layout theme should be in the preview and where to insert onClick handlers when you make those from a quickfix

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