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Activity memory leak caused by anonymous threads

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Possible Memory Leak

An anonymous inner class will hold a reference to the this pointer of the outer class and will not be released until the thread ends.
It will hold the Activity and prevent its timely release. Please check the links below.

Occurrences

onCreate

Possible Solution

If it is necessary, it can be changed to static class + weak reference to eliminate the reference to the activity, which may cause memory leaks.
Further discussion is welcome.

The thread is immediately started and will terminate after a short time (usually milliseconds). None of the problematic scenarios described in the links seem possible.

Don't think there is anything to do here.