On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "MM" == Mark Murphy <[email protected]> writes: > > >> ... I'd further qualify that as "... a cached Context (if needed) should > be > >> an Application object reference, rather than a local, short-lived > Context". > > Does extending the Application class to save the context and providing a > static method to access that context an appropriate solution as well?
No. Application *is* a Context. There is no other type of Context that has the Application's lifetime. Do not cache non-Application Contexts in process-lifetime places (static data members or Application), or you will have to contend with memory leaks. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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
