[android-developers] Re: Problem: Long running AsyncTask with reference to Activity

Yup. Use a service for long running background tasks that do not
require an Activity to be present.
Threads started by an Activity are killed anyway when your Activity is
destroyed (or at least that's how it seems to me).
You can bind to your service from your Activity to control it.

On Jul 24, 1:28 pm, sasq <jonas.minnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an AsyncTask that scans the file system and publishes progress
> through Notifications. To do this I need a reference to the current
> Activity in the AsyncTask.
>
> I also don't want to kill the task when the activity is destroyed. How
> do I avoid leaking the activity and everything it references on each
> configuration change?
>
> One possibility is to remove the reference in OnPause() to be sure it
> is gone when the Activity is destroyed, but that would mean
> notifications stops coming as soon as you leave the activity which is
> no good.
>
> Isn't there a recommended way of dealing with AsyncTasks in this way?

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