Don't use WeakReference, use SoftReference. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:48 AM, RichardC <[email protected]> wrote: > Would using a WeakReference from your AsyncTask back to your activity > help in any way? > > See discussion: > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/0732e2ec0039e92c# > > > On Jul 24, 3:13 pm, Joseph Earl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ah OK. My bad. >> >> On Jul 24, 2:49 pm, Paul Turchenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Threads are not getting killed when activity is destroyed. >> >> > On Jul 24, 4:10 pm, Joseph Earl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > Yup. Use a service for long running background tasks that do not >> > > require an Activity to be present. >> > > Threads started by an Activity are killed anyway when your Activity is >> > > destroyed (or at least that's how it seems to me). >> > > You can bind to your service from your Activity to control it. >> >> > > On Jul 24, 1:28 pm, sasq <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > I have an AsyncTask that scans the file system and publishes progress >> > > > through Notifications. To do this I need a reference to the current >> > > > Activity in the AsyncTask. >> >> > > > I also don't want to kill the task when the activity is destroyed. How >> > > > do I avoid leaking the activity and everything it references on each >> > > > configuration change? >> >> > > > One possibility is to remove the reference in OnPause() to be sure it >> > > > is gone when the Activity is destroyed, but that would mean >> > > > notifications stops coming as soon as you leave the activity which is >> > > > no good. >> >> > > > Isn't there a recommended way of dealing with AsyncTasks in this way? > > -- > 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
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