Chrome web browser memory leak Chrome Facebook using Leakcanary
By chance I have these leaks after doing login with Facebook
Webview
I found this (only mentioned in com.android.org.chromium
):
AW_RESOURCE__SRESOURCES(SAMSUNG.equals(MANUFACTURER) && SDK_INT == KITKAT) {
@Override void add(ExcludedRefs.Builder excluded) {
// AwResource#setResources() is called with resources that hold a reference to the
// activity context (instead of the application context) and doesn't clear it.
// Not sure what going on there, input welcome.
excluded.staticField("com.android.org.chromium.android_webview.AwResource", "sResources");
}
},
Inside this class AndroidExcludedRefs.java
This class is incomplete. You can help by reporting the leaked traces that appear to be caused by the Android SDK here: https://github.com/square/leakcanary/issues/new
But I am not using Samsung, so I still have this leak.
Said this leak is known? Can you ignore it?
UPDATE: I was using Facebook SDK v3.19, I updated to 4.3 but the problem remains:
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So, I was in contact with facebook support center and we came to the conclusion:
Your intuition was correct. It seems to be a bug in chrome, not our SDK. It should be fixed in later versions of android as it was fixed in April this year.
See: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=478719
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