How to capture heap memory usage while running an Android app?

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I built a video player app for Android. Now I'd like to capture info about its runtime (heap) memory usage.

Are there tools that I can use to capture and inspect this information? I'm using Eclipse to develop my app; does it have any features or plugins that make this easy?

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2015-03-23 03:28:04 +00:00
Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 3:28 — reuben
– reuben, Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 3:28

songchenwen · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-23 06:20:43Z

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In Android Studio on the tool window Android, there is a button called Dump Java Heap

If you are still using Eclipse, you can open DDMS in the android sdk tools. You'll find a Dump HPROF file button. Then you use hprof-conv in sdk tools to convert the file format.

If you wanna dump heap in code, you can use this method Debug.dumpHprofData(String fileName).

edited Mar 23, 2015 at 6:20

answered Mar 23, 2015 at 2:56

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Thiago Over a year ago

thank you. But how can I this data via the app and send back to my server as Analytics data ?

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