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Steps to reproduce:

add animated icon to splashscreen api

<item name="android:windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon">@drawable/anim_launcher_foreground</item>

and add listener for splashscreen exit

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        splashScreen.setOnExitAnimationListener {
            it.remove()
        }
    }
}

perform action that will recreate activity (ex. change UI dark mode using quick settings tile)

check with profiler for leaks

What is wrong

It looks like SurfaceView (SplashScreen.iconView) is leaking context, that is Activity for every instance where there is onExitAnimationListener set.

Not using listener DOES help (no more leaks), but then there is no way of performing custom exit animations or related logic.

clearing onExitAnimation after it is fired DOES NOT help - leak is still there

using androidx.core-splashscreen:1.0.1 DOES NOT help

Bug seen on:

• OnePlus Nord 2 5G, Android 13
• Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 pro, Android 13
• Emulator Android 12 (Android 12.0 Google APIs | x86_64)

Bug was not present on:

• Google Pixel 4a, Android 13 (latest)
• Emulator Android 14 (Android API 34 Google APIs | x86_64)

resolution

This bug looks like OS bug, but as it seem to be fixed in later version of Android 13, then maybe there is a way to fix it in backward compatible way in this library?

I tried couple of things and tried to find in android source code what is wrong, but with no luck.

attachments:

anim_launcher_foreground.xml - sample animated vector drawable

SplashScreenLeak.zip - sample project