Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's seventh Item and a momentous end to the first chapter: Avoid finalizers Stay tuned for more items from our "Effective Java for Android developers" Fragment series. Show Notes Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch Avoid finalizers If you don't know what they are, ignorance is bliss. If you know what they are, avoid them! Finalizers in Java != destructors in C++ (C++ counterparts to constructors). In C++ destructors you reclaim resources here (Java has GC) you also reclaim non-memory resources (use the try-finally block in Java) (unpredicatable amt of time between object becoming unreachable and finalizer being executed) Never do anything time critical in finalizer! System.gc + System.runFinalization increase chances - no guarantee System.runFinalizersOnExit + Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit are the ones that do - but they are fatally flawed Java 7 has try with resources, which is also interesting and auto-closeables. [Android] devs can only drea