Work around SpellCheckerSession leak?

Question

I discovered my Activity is leaking on the ICS emulator. HProf seemed to show SpellCheckerSession keeping a reference to my Activity around, and there appears to have been a fix:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/commit/df3722895172e03c81787f62d922daabaad3e20b

But is there any way to work around this in the mean time? Can I disable spell checking somehow?

Answer 1

I've found the same issue. The workaround was to disable spell checking for all EditText fields.

See my response here: Why does EditView retain its Activity's Context in Ice Cream Sandwich

Answer 2

Does it need a Context? Maybe pass the Application Context by using activity.getApplicationContext().