Is there a way to know the process has GCed? or to force a GC for this process?
On Oct 15, 12:56 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > If you press back and let the system finish the activity, all references to > it will be gone, so though your process is there after it GCs the resources > (views etc) associated with the activity should be gone. If you still see > them after you know the process has GCed, then you have a leak in your app. > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, String <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > On Oct 15, 3:08 pm, Mika <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So the problem is quite simple. I start a Service from an Activity, > > > the user presses back, the Activity goes away and the Service stays > > > running in the background. However the activity (and it's views) still > > > stay in memory. > > > Feature. It's central to the Android architecture that activities > > aren't killed by the system until their resources are needed > > elsewhere. The idea, I think, is that if the user goes back into your > > activity before that happens, it's ready and waiting. > > > Some good discussion of it in this thread: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > String > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
