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    copied!<p>I have an app that returns search results. From the list of results, a specific item can be clicked and then a detail page appears. I am getting the following window leak error whenever I make a search and return the results, view a specific result's detail, go back to the list of results, and then click another to see the details. The error comes when I click the second result and the detail page is loading.</p> <p>Here's the logcat of the error:</p> <pre><code>11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): Activity com.tforan.blobtag4.PlaceActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@40707298 that was originally added here 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity com.tforan.blobtag4.PlaceActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@40707298 that was originally added here 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.view.ViewRoot.&lt;init&gt;(ViewRoot.java:278) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:148) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:91) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:433) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:265) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at com.tforan.blobtag4.PlaceActivity$FactualRetrievalTask.onPreExecute(PlaceActivity.java:703) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.os.AsyncTask.execute(AsyncTask.java:391) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at com.tforan.blobtag4.PlaceActivity.factualQuery(PlaceActivity.java:295) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at com.tforan.blobtag4.PlaceActivity.onCreate(PlaceActivity.java:217) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1072) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1816) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1873) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:135) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1054) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4358) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607) 11-17 21:32:47.876: E/WindowManager(5945): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) </code></pre> <p>Why exactly is this happening? What can I do to get rid of this error? Happy to provide further code as needed. Thanks.</p> <p>EDIT - here is the code of the problematic AsyncTask:</p> <pre><code> @Override protected void onPreExecute() { super.onPreExecute(); dialog = new ProgressDialog(PlaceActivity.this); dialog.setMessage("Loading..."); dialog.setIndeterminate(true); dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER); dialog.setCancelable(true); dialog.show(); } @Override protected RowResponse doInBackground(RowQuery... query) { RowResponse resp = factual.fetchRow("restaurants", id, query[0]); return resp; } @Override protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... progress) { } @Override protected void onPostExecute(RowResponse resp) { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); String today = findCurrentDay(currentDay); JSONArray todayHours = null; Log.i("factual response", resp.toString()); for (Map&lt;String, Object&gt; restaurant : resp.getData()) { //..a bunch of JSON parsing.. dialog.dismiss(); } </code></pre>
 

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