[Dogstopper]

http://developer.and...mory-leaks.html

Memory leaks aren't something that you would normally expect in an Android application with a garbage collector. But, with the way that the Android lifecycle works, it is unfortunately very easy to have memory leaks. This article describes how they happen and how to prevent them. Thoughts?

[ishkabible]

i don't understand how the memory leak is caused. no references are lost are they, the JVM makes sure of that. so how is a memory leak caused?

[Dogstopper]

Because the original Context is saved statically, so that every time a new Context is created, an entire set of data is still allocated (by that static reference), even though another set is created....When compounded multiple times, it is bad....

[ishkabible]

but how dose that translate to a memory leak? either there is something like a heap overflow or im not understanding this.

[Nick johnson]

Even, I m not pretty clear. Is it like FIFO i.e. first in first out.
The memory comes first will be go out if the memory exceeded than the space provided.
or is it a random memory loss?????