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Fix memory leak in location component. #1093

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Fix memory leak in location component. #1093

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@Chaoba Chaoba commented Jan 28, 2022

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This PR adds a new class CurrentLocationEngineCallback to hold LocationProviderImpl instance with a weak reference to avoid memory leak issue.
Invoke removeCompassListener when there is no LocationConsumer registed.

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@Chaoba Chaoba added the bug 🪲 Something isn't working label Jan 28, 2022
@Chaoba Chaoba requested a review from a team as a code owner January 28, 2022 09:21
@Chaoba Chaoba self-assigned this Jan 28, 2022
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## Bug fixes 🐞
* Fix memory leak in location component. ([#1093](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-maps-android/pull/1093))
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@Chaoba could you explain how was this reproduced?

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Open and close LocationComponentActivity several times could reproduce it.

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Yeah I mean - aren't we hiding the actual problem here? Why isn't unRegisterLocationConsumer called here? Shouldn't lifecycle call it always?

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Actually, we do call unRegisterLocationConsumer, but still have this issue.

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Hmm, how is this possible at all?

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This can only be reproduced with compass engine, guess locationEngine holds the reference of location plugin as well as sensorManager.

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Maybe we don't unsubscribe from compass engine somehow? I'd say compass is also very common component so if memory leaks were reproducible it would leak in many apps out there

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The root cause should be locationEngine holds the reference the callback during request location update even we remove it. And then the location compass is kept and causes the leak.

Only request location update or have location compass can't reproduce this issue, must combine these two together.

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I've digged it a bit and it seems found the root cause. Thing is - we use Activity context to create SensorManager instance at CompassEngine.

And callbacks, that we add / remove to the LocationEngine indeed are retained, even after remove is called.

So the issue became visible with the CompassEngine addition, since it holds SensorManager, which holds Context, which holds (and is) Activity.
It seems to me that we should use application context everywhere, so that in future such problems won't be possible at all.

PS
Context for the issue is interesting as well. It seems that our implementation of LocationEngine in mapbox-android-core lacks certain logic cleaning the callback or otherwise such issues wouldn't be possible as well.

The issue with LocationEngine keeping its listeners even after removeLocationUpdates has very long story, raised here, reworked here and followed with the documented recommendation to avoid leaks using WeakReferences here published here.
I'll cut a ticket in the lib repo to apply the fix as well.

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@Chaoba Chaoba merged commit 913649e into main Feb 21, 2022
@Chaoba Chaoba deleted the kl-location-mml branch February 21, 2022 12:20
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