Re: [android-developers] What is a WeakReference?

2010-07-22 Thread Satya Komatineni
Recently I had to do some research on the role of weak references possibly for configuration changes and auto restart of activities. See if the following material is useful http://www.satyakomatineni.com/akc/display?url=DisplayNoteIMPURL&reportId=3528&ownerUserId=satya The weak references are tow

[android-developers] What is a WeakReference?

2010-07-22 Thread GodsMoon
Google just posted a new blog post on http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/multithreading-for-performance.html. I understand the AsyncTask and I'm even using one in a list with images already. But I don't understand what a WeakReference is. I gather is is a garbage collector directive, b