Could be that Eclipse and Ant are using different methods to build your project. Have you checked your project settings in Eclipse? If you haven't done a clean build yet, try that too.
On Oct 23, 1:09 pm, John Gaby <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a very simple application which has a problem with getting > ListViews to be freed by the GC. I have a ViewGroup which has a > ListView. When the page with the ViewGroup no longer has any > references to it, and I force a GC, the ListView is not freed. > > The project in question is quite small and can be found > athttp://gabysoft.com/download/MemoryLeak.zip. If you run it, the first > page has a button and a ListView (which has no items so you cannot see > it). When you press the button it switches to a second page which has > just a button. When you press the button on the second page, it > creates a new ViewGroup and ListView and sets that as the current > view. Thus, every time you switch pages, a new ViewGroup/ListView is > created, and all references to the old one go away. Hence the old one > should be GC'd. However if you switch views 20 times and then force a > GC you will see that the ListViews are never freed (i.e. their > finalize method (which is logged) is not called). > > Now here is the really weird part. This happens ONLY if I build my > project using Eclipse. If I use Ant to build and install the project, > the ListViews are all freed when I do a GC as you would expect. Why > would the Eclipse version exhibit this behavior? -- 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
