I am pretty sure the standard music app doesn't leak, so I wonder if you are
somehow measuring things incorrectly.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Mika <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Dianne,
>
> This is what I assumed also. Do you have any ideas where the leak
> could be in the sample app that I posted? I also checked the music
> player app with meminfo and it behaves similarly leaving activities in
> memory even after the ui is closed and system_process and
> com.android.music processes are GCed from DDMS. I also tested with 1.1
> SDK and Emulator and there everything works as presumed and no
> activities stay in memory after they are closed.
>
> -Mika
>
> On Oct 15, 7:56 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.
> >
>


-- 
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.

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