How to get Context in Android MVVM ViewModel

You can use an Application context which is provided by the AndroidViewModel, you should extend AndroidViewModel which is simply a ViewModel that includes an Application reference.

For Android Architecture Components View Model,

It's not a good practice to pass your Activity Context to the Activity's ViewModel as its a memory leak.

Hence to get the context in your ViewModel, the ViewModel class should extend the Android View Model Class. That way you can get the context as shown in the example code below.

class ActivityViewModel(application: Application) : AndroidViewModel(application) {

    private val context = getApplication<Application>().applicationContext

    //... ViewModel methods 

}