Finalizing a Cursor that has not been deactivated or closed non-fatal error

Question

i\'m getting a \"Finalizing a Cursor that has not been deactivated or closed\" error on this piece of code. The code is used to fill a listview.

Since it\'s a non

Answer 1

I too have been having issues with the closing the cursor:

• Closing the cursor right after setting the list view's adapter causes the cursor to close before the data gets displayed.

• Can't use startManagingCursor to manage the cursor because it has been deprecated.

• The new cursorLoader replacement for startManagingCursor seems to be overkill.

• Moving the cursor's position as suggested did not work.

• Making the task an inner class of the activity and closing the cursor in the activity's onDestroy method works sometimes but not all the time.

• Making the task an inner class of the activity and closing the cursor in the activity's onStop method seems to be working.

I also found out that I can close the database and the sqlite open helper before closing the cursor. I can even close them right after setting the list view's adapter. The data will still display.