I know that if you initialize a Handler directly and use it in an Activity it will leak Context (courtesy of Alex Lockwood), for e.g.
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
private final Handler mLeakyHandler = new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
/* ... */
}
}
}
So I used the following approach
private static class StaticHandler extends Handler {
private final WeakReference<SampleActivity> mSampleAct;
private StaticHandler(SampleActivity act) {
mSampleAct = new WeakReference<SampleActivity>(
act);
}
}
Then I initialize it as following
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
private Handler myHandler = new StaticHandler(this) {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
super.handleMessage(msg);
processTask(msg.obj);
}
};
}
I wanted to know if my Handler i.e. myHandler will still leak Context, how can I be sure it doesn't?
