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Does cyclic reference in Android creates memory leak?
I have one ViewModel and one Utility class. MyViewModel creates an instance of the utility class (Manager) and registers a callback. As per my understanding, this might create memory leak as these objects won't be garbage collected as their reference count will be always greater than 1.

class Manager(private val listener: (String) -> Unit): BarCodeScanResult {
fun launchSDK(activity: Activity) {
// launches a activity to scan a bar code
}

override fun processResults(result:...