On Jul 25, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > I've found 2 things that made my app more reliable (NB. "more reliable" not > "totally reliable")... > > · I had a tight loop calling RunOnUiThread to update an activity when > performing a background task. For a long-running task this sometimes caused a > crash (NB. not an application level exception, just the usual "app has > died"). Suppose this tried to perform 5,000 UI updates in 1 minute - 80% of > the time the app would crash doing this. I changed the updates to be only 10% > of this - app has never crashed since. The crash was always associated with a > GC_EXPLICIT in the logs.
Have you filed a bug for this? If not, could you? > · I had a number of activities using StartActivityForResult. At > seemingly-random times in the activity lifecycle the app would die. I changed > the app to hold a reference to each activity globally, in order to inhibit > the GC (not a good idea I know). This increased reliability significantly. To > me it "felt" like activities were being GC'd before OnDestroy was called, but > that's guesswork. Have you filed this as well? A repro would be nice, but this seems more random... Thanks, - Jon _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
