ConnectivityManager leaking, not sure how to resolve

Question

So, I have this method that let's me know if the user has an active internet connection. It works well. However, leak canary has identified a memory leak associated with the connectivityManager. I am presently not closing the connectivityManager anywhere in my code at any time that I know of.

I've tried to close the connectivityManager in onDestroy. Either that isn't an option or I don't know the code. Truth be told, I simply tried to get auto fill to tell me how to do it. No luck.

public static boolean isNetworkAvailable(Context context) {
    ConnectivityManager connectivityManager =(ConnectivityManager)  context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo activeNetworkInfo =connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    return activeNetworkInfo !=null && activeNetworkInfo.isConnected();
}

Answer 1

Use this to prevent leak,

ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getApplicationContext()
                .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);

Answer 2

Sharing a new answer as there is a catch:

I tried fixing the bug by instantiating ConnectivityManager using the following code in my activity:

ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getApplicationContext()
            .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);

However, this did not fix the memory leak. The problem is that even before my activity is called, some dependent library might be internally using ConnectivityManager in its code which leads to static variable of context being initialized to an activity context. The trick to fix this is to instantiate ConnectivityManager in the Application class just for the sake of it (unused).

public class MyApp extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
         ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    }
}