android

android is a cursor rule for Cursor from AcKeskin/contexture. It costs 0 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for managing Android screens and their lifetimes. It explains how to avoid keeping old screens alive, how to preserve state across rotation, and when to register and remove listeners.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Android code involving Activities, Fragments, Views, Context objects, ViewModels, listeners, sensors, or observers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent memory leaks, lost screen state, duplicate callbacks, and other bugs caused by Android recreating screens during configuration changes.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Android code involving Activities, Fragments, Views, Context objects, ViewModels, listeners, sensors, or observers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ackeskin/contexture/android
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AcKeskin/contexture

Made for: Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 879 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00879
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00352
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00088

Measured today against content hash ae0296ccb9d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cursor/rules/android.mdc · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generated from architectural-rules/android/ — do not hand-edit.

Android Lifecycle Discipline

Never hold a static or long-lived reference to an Activity, Fragment, View, or their Context. Use applicationContext for needs that outlive a single screen. A static Activity ref keeps the whole view hierarchy alive past onDestroy, leaking memory. (Android docs — Activity lifecycle)

Do not store UI state in the Activity/Fragment. Hold it in a ViewModel (survives rotation/config changes) plus SavedStateHandle / saved instance state for process death. The system destroys and recreates the Activity on configuration change; instance fields are lost. (Android docs — Handle configuration changes)

Register and unregister listeners, receivers, sensors, and observers symmetrically: acquire in onStart/onResume, release in the paired onStop/onPause. Asymmetric registration leaks callbacks and double-fires after recreation. (Android docs — Activity lifecycle)

Why: The framework owns Activity/Fragment lifetime and recreates them on configuration changes, so any UI state or Context captured in instance/static fields either leaks or is silently lost. Hoisting state into a lifecycle-aware ViewModel and binding resource acquisition to symmetric lifecycle callbacks keeps ownership explicit and prevents both leaks and stale callbacks. Source: Android developer documentation.

Android Resources and Manifest Discipline

Never hardcode UI strings, dimensions, colors, or sizes in code or layouts. Put them in res/values/ (strings.xml, dimens.xml, colors.xml) and provide configuration-qualified variants (values-fr/, values-night/, values-sw600dp/). Externalized resources enable localization, theming, and device adaptation. (Android docs — App resources)

Declare every permission in the manifest, and for dangerous permissions request them at runtime and handle denial gracefully. Assuming a permission is granted without checking crashes on modern Android. Request only what the feature needs. (Android docs — Permissions on Android)

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 40 lines · 879 tokens per session scan A ae0296ccb9d4

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android is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AcKeskin/contexture (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 879 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-27.