Activity.ReleaseInstance Method
Definition
Important
Some information relates to prerelease product that may be substantially modified before it’s released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here.
Ask that the local app instance of this activity be released to free up its memory.
[Android.Runtime.Register("releaseInstance", "()Z", "GetReleaseInstanceHandler")]
public virtual bool ReleaseInstance ();[<Android.Runtime.Register("releaseInstance", "()Z", "GetReleaseInstanceHandler")>]
abstract member ReleaseInstance : unit -> bool
override this.ReleaseInstance : unit -> boolReturns
Returns true if the activity was in a state that it has started the process of destroying its current instance; returns false if for any reason this could not be done: it is currently visible to the user, it is already being destroyed, it is being finished, it hasn't yet saved its state, etc.
- Attributes
Remarks
Ask that the local app instance of this activity be released to free up its memory. This is asking for the activity to be destroyed, but does <b>not</b> finish the activity -- a new instance of the activity will later be re-created if needed due to the user navigating back to it.
Java documentation for android.app.Activity.releaseInstance().
Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.