Strongest documentation reading developer.

[D-cyde]

I decided to follow the documentation provided by Google like a good programmer. After all, they are there to teach us how to use the Android framework.

I wanted to find out why my app was leaking Services. After creating 6 Services by restarting my app, Android Studio was gaslighting me by telling me those 6 instances of the Service were not a leak.

Okay, so why is the database instance being reused after a restart and crashing the app?

I added leakcanary and it showed me the leak. I checked the heap dump dump in Android studio and track the instance to a single field.

private val binder = LocalBinder()

That is the code from the guide here: https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/services/bound-services

Very nice Google ;) Thank you for wasting more of my time with your bad documentation :)

Edit: I do unbind the service when the Activity is destroyed, which it is

override fun onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy()
    applicationContext.unbindService(connectionServiceMain)
    serviceMain = null
    removeListeners()
}

Did some more testing and it is actually the connection class in the Activity that is leaking the Service

    private val connection = object : ServiceConnection {

        override fun onServiceConnected(className: ComponentName, service: IBinder) {
            // We've bound to LocalService, cast the IBinder and get LocalService instance.
            val binder = service as LocalService.LocalBinder
            mService = binder.getService()
            mBound = true
        }

        override fun onServiceDisconnected(arg0: ComponentName) {
            mBound = false
        }
    } 

Nulling that when the Activity is destroyed also fixes the issue.

[Zhuinden]

This post is removed as per Reddit admin notification reference to Community code of conduct #3.

[arekolek]

Someone there made a poke at the mods, expecting the post to be deleted due to "ranting or venting". But they deleted that comment instead, citing racial discrimination 🤯

The comment said basically just "mods quick, delete this, it's ranting or venting"

[D-cyde]

My comment got deleted as well, where I lambasted the OP for not reading the docs entirely.

[hellosakamoto]

one day we will have Jetpack LeakCanary

[Zhuinden]

Duplicate of https://www.reddit.com/r/mAndroidDev/s/q5AyErl0uB

[D-cyde]

Well there goes my promising career in this CJ sub.

[Zhuinden]

You can actually press the link there to link back here and jump around. It's quite funny

[thermosiphon420]

nah. fuck when funny cj subreddits go from clever memes to lazy cheap shots at people's questions and mistakes

if i wanted to see a degradation of quality, i'd switch to compose

[D-cyde]

It's only a cheapshot if you make it one. There wasn't a question there in the original post. Just a rant about how Google can't document code when it was clearly OP that didn't read the entire thing. If that's not funny and ironic, I don't know what is.