OTOH, you can still leak memory in Android by holding references to unneeded resources, particularly Contexts. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/a

OTOH, you can still leak memory in Android by holding references to unneeded resources, particularly Contexts. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memo... It's a different sort of problem, but you have to be careful either way. There is a subtle benefit to having been forced to manage reference counts.