Android Surfaceview Threads and memory leaks

Question

Im creating a game in android, and i noticed that the game has a memory leak. Iv managed to isolate the memory leak into a smaller application so that i can see well try and wor

Answer 1

As you can see here:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/avoiding-memory-leaks.html

The easiest way to start a memory leak in Android is to pass a view's constructor the whole activity instead of the application context. Have you try to change this line:

setContentView(new MemoryLeak(this));

into this one:

setContentView(new MemoryLeak(Context.getApplicationContext()));

?

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

You should not create new Thread in the constructor when you are creating it in onSurfaceCreated. Compare your code to my example: How can I use the animation framework inside the canvas?