"I ask only because the Application object returned by getApplicationContext() is a bit brain-dead in terms of being a Context"
Not to hijack the thread, but which things do fail? I assume that the call to tracker.start takes a Context as parameter and getApplicationContext() is a proper Context. Which methods are 'braindead' :-) On Jun 18, 6:51 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the short term, I've replaced: > > tracker.start("UA-YOUR-ACCOUNT-HERE", this); > > with > > tracker.start("UA-YOUR-ACCOUNT-HERE", > > this.getApplicationContext()); > > Have you confirmed that you actually get the analytic data after this > change? I ask only because the Application object returned by > getApplicationContext() is a bit brain-dead in terms of being a > Context. A number of GUI-related things fail outright if you use > getApplicationContext() instead of an Activity, for example. I'm just > a bit nervous that you may have fixed the leak but broken your > analytics collection. > > BTW, nice bit of sleuthing! > > -- > Mark Murphy > CommonsWare > [email protected]http://commonsware.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
