Is it safe to use static class variables in an android application

Question

I am aware of the technique of extending the Application class to provide global storage. However in my case I am writing a class for a library function, so do not wish to f

Answer 1

If your goal is to store persistant data across the twists and turns of the application lifecycle, then I would recommend not using static variables to do so. The obvious problem with this approach is that they could easily be garbage collected by the system when the operating system decides to reclaim memory (i.e. when the screen sleeps or a different application starts a memory-intensive task). I'm not sure what kind of data you are looking to "store", but I would recommend saving the state in SharedPreferences or an SQLiteDatabase instead.