Avoid memory leaks on Android

Question

I just read a blogpost by Romain Guy on how to avoid memory leaks in Android.

In the article he gives this example:

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Answer 1

Memory leaks at that code mostly happen when you rotate your screen (that is, changing the orientation state) so your activity was destroyed and created again for the new orientation. There's a lot of explanation about memory leaks.

You can take a look at one of the Google I/O 2011 video about Memory Management here. In the video, you can also use the memory management tools like Memory Analyzer available to download here.