Handlers and memory leaks in Android

Question

Please have a look at the code below:

public class MyGridFragment extends Fragment{

     Handler myhandler = new Handler() {
    @Override
    public void h         


        

Answer 1

Here's a somewhat useful little class I made that you can use. Sadly it's still quite verbose because you can't have anonymous static inner classes.

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;

/** A handler which keeps a weak reference to a fragment. According to
 * Android's lint, references to Handlers can be kept around for a long
 * time - longer than Fragments for example. So we should use handlers
 * that don't have strong references to the things they are handling for.
 * 
 * You can use this class to more or less forget about that requirement.
 * Unfortunately you can have anonymous static inner classes, so it is a
 * little more verbose.
 * 
 * Example use:
 * 
 *  private static class MsgHandler extends WeakReferenceHandler
 *  {
 *      public MsgHandler(MyFragment fragment) { super(fragment); }
 * 
 *      @Override
 *      public void handleMessage(MyFragment fragment, Message msg)
 *      {
 *          fragment.doStuff(msg.arg1);
 *      }
 *  }
 * 
 *  // ...
 *  MsgHandler handler = new MsgHandler(this);
 */
public abstract class WeakReferenceHandler extends Handler
{
    private WeakReference mReference;

    public WeakReferenceHandler(T reference)
    {
        mReference = new WeakReference(reference);
    }

    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg)
    {
        if (mReference.get() == null)
            return;
        handleMessage(mReference.get(), msg);
    }

    protected abstract void handleMessage(T reference, Message msg);
}