Activity has leaked window that was originally add

Question

What is this error, and why does it happen?

05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850): Activity com.mypkg.myP has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@44c46ff0 that was originally added here
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity ccom.mypkg.myP has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@44c46ff0 that was originally added here
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.view.ViewRoot.<init>(ViewRoot.java:231)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:148)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:91)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:239)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at com.mypkg.myP$PreparePairingLinkageData.onPreExecute(viewP.java:183)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.os.AsyncTask.execute(AsyncTask.java:391)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at com.mypkg.myP.onCreate(viewP.java:94)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2544)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2621)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:126)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1932)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4595)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
05-17 18:24:57.069: ERROR/WindowManager(18850):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

Not only try to show an alert but it can also be invoked when you finish a particular instance of activity and try to start new activity/service or try to stop it.

Example:

OldActivity instance;

    oncreate() {
       instance=this;
    }
    instance.finish();
    instance.startActivity(new Intent(ACTION_MAIN).setClass(instance, NewActivity.class));

Answer 2

You're trying to show a Dialog after you've exited an Activity.

[EDIT]

This question is one of the top search on google for android developer, therefore Adding few important points from comments, which might be more helpful for future investigator without going in depth of comment conversation.

Answer 1 :

You're trying to show a Dialog after you've exited an Activity.

Answer 2

This error can be a little misleading in some circumstances (although the answer is still completely accurate) - i.e. in my case an unhandled Exception was thrown in an AsyncTask, which caused the Activity to shutdown, then an open progressdialog caused this Exception.. so the 'real' exception was a little earlier in the log

Answer 3

Call dismiss() on the Dialog instance you created before exiting your Activity, e.g. in onPause() or onDestroy()

Answer 3

I was getting these logs in my video player application. These messages were thrown while the video player was closed. Interestingly, I used to get these logs once in a few runs in a random manner. Also my application does not involve in any progressdialog. Finally, I got around this issue with the below implementation.

@Override
protected void onPause()
{
    Log.v("MediaVideo", "onPause");
    super.onPause();
    this.mVideoView.pause();
    this.mVideoView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy()
{
    Log.v("MediaVideo", "onDestroy");
    super.onDestroy();
}

@Override
protected void onResume()
{
    Log.v("MediaVideo", "onResume");
    super.onResume();
    this.mVideoView.resume();
}

Override the OnPause with call to mVideoView.pause() and the set visibility to GONE. This way I could resolve the "Activity has leaked window" log error issue.

Answer 4

Window leaked exceptions have two reasons:

1) showing the dialog when Activity Context doesn't exists, to solve this you should show the dialog only you are sure Activity exists:

if(getActivity()!= null && !getActivity().isFinishing()){
        Dialog.show();
}

2) not dismiss the dialog appropriately, to solve use this code:

@Override
public void onDestroy(){
    super.onDestroy();
    if ( Dialog!=null && Dialog.isShowing() ){
        Dialog.dismiss();
}
}

Answer 5

Just make sure your activity is not closing unexpectedly due to some exceptions raised somewhere in your code. Generally it happens in async task when activity faces force closure in doinBackground method and then asynctask returns to onPostexecute method.

Answer 6

I recently faced the same issue.

The reason behind this issue is that the activity being closed before the dialog is dismissed. There are various reasons for the above to happen. The ones mentioned in the posts above are also correct.

I got into a situation, because in the thread, I was calling a function which was throwing exception. Because of which the window was being dismissed and hence the exception.