Question

Now I was certain that when I switched 2 activities that the previous the very last one would be garbage collected.

I have a GridView displaying a set of images which does work fine with asynchronous loading. Somehow even after switching to many activities the activity seems to persist with the images on it.

My question is how do I either force garbage collection on an entire adapter or clean an entire activity?

Now it may be slightly different with a phone. I am using a android debugger.

Answer 1

For everyone who may encounter persisting adapters

LayoutInflater li = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view= li.inflate(R.layout.view, parent, false);