Leak canary, Recyclerview leaking mAdapter

Question

I decided it was high time I learned how to use Leak Canary to detect Leaks within my apps, and as I always do, I tried to implement it in my project to really understand how to

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by overriding RecyclerView. It happens because RecyclerView never unregisters itself from AdapterDataObservable.

@Override protected void onDetachedFromWindow() {
    super.onDetachedFromWindow();
    if (getAdapter() != null) {
        setAdapter(null);
    }
}