Admob Memory Leak - avoiding by using empty activity

Question

Our app is getting hit pretty hard by a memory leak. I\'ve found that the root cause is the AdMob AdView keeping references to old activities. The problem is pretty well d

Answer 1

I was seeing this same leak with the 6.1.0 SDK, but was able to resolve it by calling destroy() on the AdView in question in my Activity's onDestroy. I think they have fixed it. The destroy() seems to get rid of the PhantomReferences that the AdView's WebView had to my Activity that was keeping the Activity from being GC.