So has anybody been able to test the sample app and found the leak. To me this seems a quite serious bug or I might have misunderstood some fundamental Android concept. But I doubt that it is desired behavior to leave Activities (or at least not its views) in memory when they are not used.
-Mika On Oct 16, 12:11 pm, Mika <mika.ristim...@tkk.fi> 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 <hack...@android.com> 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 > > <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > > On Oct 15, 3:08 pm, Mika <mika.ristim...@tkk.fi> 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 > > hack...@android.com > > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
