The context class is abstract. When you say context do you mean an Activity context? I suggest you look at the Application class (see getApplicationContext()) and pass that instead. It is much much safer from memory leaks rather than passing the Activity around.
Try to also override the finalize() method of your activity and put a log in there to ensure the activity is dead. On Oct 10, 5:40 pm, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I always just bite the bullet and pass Context as an argument. Yes, > it's a bit more typing, but it's safer and besides, that's how most of > the Android API's work. > > On Oct 11, 3:19 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Chuck Lega <chuck.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I often run into the following dilemma: I need some singleton-like > > > object in my app (typically some central manager-like thing) and this > > > object needs a context for various things. This means that I either > > > have to pass a context to all methods needing one or have some sort of > > > init-pattern to the object. Neither is pretty I think. What is the > > > correct way of doing this? Or is this simply (even the definition of) > > > a Service? > > > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > > You really really really need to be careful about putting a Context in > > a static data member, as you can run into memory leaks if Android > > wants to destroy that context later. I recommend that you either pass > > in the Context as needed, convert it into a Service that your > > activities bind to, or make it a custom Application object (which is a > > Context, though you may still find times when you'll need an > > Activity's context). > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.0.1 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
