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Expert Android Programming

You're reading from   Expert Android Programming Master skills to build enterprise grade Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468956
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prajyot Mainkar Prajyot Mainkar
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Preface 1. Understanding the Gradle System FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools 3. Leap into the Android Support Library 4. Google Play Services 5. Material Design 6. SOLID Android Development and Its Design Principles 7. Understanding MVC, MVP, MVVM and Clean Arch Patterns 8. Decision Making 9. Performance Matters 10. Building Restaurant finder 11. Backend Service 12. App Quality Service 13. Grow Up 14. Testing 15. Preparing for Google Play 16. Understanding App Store Analytics for Optimization

Memory Monitor

When you hear the term memory management in an Android app, it is basically the Random Access Memory (RAM). Managing the RAM is the most critical section in the Android app development process, as the physical memory is often constrained. The fundamental principle of memory management is to avoid a memory leak from your app.

In Android Studio there is a tool we can use to check the memory usage in the App. To check this you could follow these steps:

  1. Run your app on an Android device connected to an emulator.
  2. Open the Android Monitor tab in Android Studio situated at the bottom window.
  3. Open the Monitor section within it, and you are there.

Here you'll be able to continuously check the memory usage of the app as and when the app is being used. The following image shows the memory usage for an app:

The preceding memory graph shows the memory used by a device...

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