Cursor finalized without prior close() warning. what does it mean?

Question

LogCat keeps on showing me a

Cursor finalized without prior close()

warning.

I was using SQLite on a previous version of the app, but don't use it anymore.

I tried to find the cause for this warning with no luck. some Google and Stackoverflow references say it's related to the db.

What does this warning mean? should I ignore it?

I could supply a sample code but I don't have an idea which part of my app causes this. there is also no stack trace added.

EDIT: Apparently a cursor is being used by a 3rd party dependency that I'm using, which is causing this warning.

there is a cursor that is dereferenced (and therefore collected by the garbage collector) but that you never `close()` before dereferencing. Hence the warning. Most of the time, I consider it is quite safe to ignore it, and quite a pain to track it down. — njzk2, Mar 12 '14 at 14:54
See http://stackoverflow.com/a/29846562/262789 for how to resolve. — Jade, Jan 23 '17 at 15:40

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '14 at 14:56

6

Exactly what your warning says, you have some cases that you didn't use

cursor.close();

answered Mar 12 '14 at 14:56

I don't use a cursor in any place. where could a cursor be used? – Omri374 Mar 13 '14 at 08:43
Do you use any external sqllite connection library? – Barışcan Kayaoğlu Mar 13 '14 at 09:35
No, I did an attempt with sqlite on a previous version but there's no trace for it that I could find... – Omri374 Mar 13 '14 at 14:41

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