Threads are not getting killed when activity is destroyed. On Jul 24, 4:10 pm, Joseph Earl <joseph.w.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup. Use a service for long running background tasks that do not > require an Activity to be present. > Threads started by an Activity are killed anyway when your Activity is > destroyed (or at least that's how it seems to me). > You can bind to your service from your Activity to control it. > > On Jul 24, 1:28 pm, sasq <jonas.minnb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have an AsyncTask that scans the file system and publishes progress > > through Notifications. To do this I need a reference to the current > > Activity in the AsyncTask. > > > I also don't want to kill the task when the activity is destroyed. How > > do I avoid leaking the activity and everything it references on each > > configuration change? > > > One possibility is to remove the reference in OnPause() to be sure it > > is gone when the Activity is destroyed, but that would mean > > notifications stops coming as soon as you leave the activity which is > > no good. > > > Isn't there a recommended way of dealing with AsyncTasks in this way?
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