Link to activity in ViewHolder

Is it possible to store a handle to an Activity in a ViewHolder that is stored using a method setTag

?

I found this issue, which claims that keeping a link to an Activity can lead to a memory leak, but it was fixed in Android 4.0: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18273

Specifically, I'm wondering if it's safe to have a ViewHolder that looks something like this:

class MyHolder {
  private Context context; // <<-- is this safe to keep here??
  private TextView textView;

  public MyHolder(Context context) {
    this.context = context;
  }

  public void populate(Doc doc) {
    textView.setText(context.getString(doc.getTextId()));
  }

  public View inflate(ViewGroup parent) {
    View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(
        R.layout.doc_item, parent, false);

    textView = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.doc_item_text);

    return view;
  }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

using getView method in my ArrayAdapter like this:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View row, ViewGroup parent) {

    Doc doc = getItem(position);

    MyHolder holder;
    if (row != null) {
        holder = (MyHolder) row.getTag();
    } else {
        holder = new MyHolder(getContext());
        row = holder.inflate(parent);

        row.setTag(holder);
    }

    holder.populate(doc);

    return row;
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

(The code is a simplified version of the actual codebase, to get the point.)

None of the code examples I've seen reference anything other than the views in the holder. I'm wondering if this is by coincidence or by design.