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James Gitonga

I am a software engineer specialised in android development both in Java and Kotlin.

Jun 20, 2023

Very informative article! Well done. I have a few questions on the matter of memory leaks and GC in the scope of Hilt:

When we use the @Singleton annotation when providing dependencies in a hilt graph, is the resulting provided class a singleton?
If so, does Dagger Hilt provide its on ways of automatically handling GC

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Yves Kalume

Android Engineer

Jun 20, 2023

By definition, a memory leak occurs when an allocated memory isn't released when it is no longer needed. So when we create a singleton with hilt, it's not a memory leak because we need this instance.

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James Gitonga

I am a software engineer specialised in android development both in Java and Kotlin.

Jun 20, 2023

Yves Kalume oh okay awesome , and thank you for the quick reply.

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