Our mobile teams now view LeakCanary as a good default choice for Android development. It detects annoying memory leaks in Android apps, is extremely simple to hook up and provides notifications with a clear trace-back to the cause of the leak. LeakCanary can save you tedious hours troubleshooting out-of-memory errors on multiple devices, and we recommend you add it to your toolkit.

Our mobile teams have been excited about LeakCanary, a tool for detecting annoying memory leaks in Android and Java. It's simple to hook up and provides notifications with a clear trace-back to the cause of the leak. Adding this to your toolkit can save tedious hours troubleshooting out-of-memory errors on multiple devices.