Memory Analysis

Poking Around in Android Memory

11 February 2013 ~4 min By etienne
Memory Analysis Mobile Programming
Taking inspiration from Vlad’s post I’ve been playing around with alternate means of viewing traffic/data generated by Android apps. The technique that has given me most joy is memory analysis. Each application on android is run in the Dalvik VM and is allocated it’s own heap space. Android being android, free and open, numerous ways of dumping the contents of the application heap exist. There’s even a method for it in the android.os.Debug library: android.os.Debug.dumpHprofData(String filename). You can also cause a heap dump by issuing the kill command: