这篇博客讲的非常棒
http://www.jb51.net/article/92311.htm
总结几点：
1、非静态内部类默认会持有外部类的引用，所以如果此时设置一个内部类为静态变量的时候，外部类将会无法被GC。
2、匿名类造成的泄漏原因和上面一样。
3、由于 Handler 属于 TLS(Thread Local Storage) 变量, 生命周期和 Activity 是不一致的。因此这种实现方式一般很难保证跟 View 或者 Activity 的生命周期保持一致，故很容易导致无法正确释放。
比如：
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
private final Handler mLeakyHandler = new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
// ...
}
}
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Post a message and delay its execution for 10 minutes.
mLeakyHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() { /* ... */ }
}, 1000 * 60 * 10);
// Go back to the previous Activity.
finish();
}
}
在10秒内，如果activity调用finish。
延迟执行任务的 Message 还会继续存在于主线程中，它持有该 Activity 的 Handler 引用，所以此时 finish() 掉的 Activity 就不会被回收了从而造成内存泄漏（因 Handler 为非静态内部类，它会持有外部类的引用，在这里就是指 SampleActivity）。
有一个解决办法就是使用静态static和软引用：
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
/**
* Instances of static inner classes do not hold an implicit
* reference to their outer class.
*/
private static class MyHandler extends Handler {
private final WeakReference<SampleActivity> mActivity;
public MyHandler(SampleActivity activity) {
mActivity = new WeakReference<SampleActivity>(activity);
}
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
SampleActivity activity = mActivity.get();
if (activity != null) {
// ...
}
}
}
private final MyHandler mHandler = new MyHandler(this);
/**
* Instances of anonymous classes do not hold an implicit
* reference to their outer class when they are "static".
*/
private static final Runnable sRunnable = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() { /* ... */ }
};
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Post a message and delay its execution for 10 minutes.
mHandler.postDelayed(sRunnable, 1000 * 60 * 10);
// Go back to the previous Activity.
finish();
}
}