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Android High Performance Programming
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Android High Performance Programming

by Enrique López Mañas, Diego Grancini
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
9h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Heap analysis and visualization

We have learned how to debug threads using DDMS. Now we will learn how to properly analyze the memory heap of an application: that is, the portion of memory where the allocated memory resides. This is very important when it comes to debugging memory leaks.

Let's use a heap dump to track down the problem. Click the Heap analysis and visualization icon to dump the HPROF file and choose where you want to save the file. Now run hprof-conv over the file. hprof-conv is an Android utility that converts the .hprof file from the Dalvik format to the J2SE HPROF format, so it can be opened with standard tools. It can be found under /platform-tools. To run ...

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