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I'm writing an app that loads user profiles and user's ratings for different places. The app uses fragments pervasively, and it's relatively easy to jump from a profile to a rated place.

As a user clicks a profile and gets to a rated place, they can click another profile on a rated place and go on and on.

The problem I'm having is memory related, when I'm looking at a ranked place and I click a profile, I switch from one Activity to the next. In both of these activities, after setContentView I load a fragment dynamically into layout space.

Now, as I shuttle between these activities, onSaveInstance state is almost always called, however since the Fragment displaying whatever was in the foreground before the activity switch, onDestroyView is not called.

What I would like is when onSaveInstanceState is called in these dynamic fragments, it to force onDestroyView to be called as well.

The only time onDestroyView seems to be called is when I add a Fragment to the back stack. When another activity comes to the foreground and this fragment is stopped, I'd like on DestroyView to be called as well.

The current workaround I want to implement is have an empty fragment with no view, and every time I call startActivity(Intent i), load this dummy fragment to destroy views and start the next activity. Then, when I come back, pop it off the back stack and restore the actual last fragment.

This however seems excessive. So, for a stopped fragment in a stopped activity with a new activity in front of it, how do I force it to destroy it's View?