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 towards the end of the document Satya Komatineni http://www.satyakomatineni.com http://www.androidbook.com On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM, GodsMoon <godsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, but I thought I didn't need to manage > garbage collection on Android. > > http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/ref/WeakReference.html > isn't as helpful as I was hoping it would be. > > -- > 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 -- -- 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
