Memory Leaks

32 articles

Articles covering heap analysis, retain cycles, memory pressure handling, and strategies for detecting and preventing memory leaks across mobile platforms.

We track 32 Memory Leaks articles from 24 engineering teams. Google, Grindr and Badoo write about it most. Most posts cover Android (26), iOS (12) and React Native (1). The newest one is from March 2026.

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  1. Grindr · Feb 10, 2026

    Automating Memory Leak Detection with AI

    Ricardo Marin from Grindr turned memory leak debugging from a 2-4 hour manual slog into a minutes-long automated process.

  2. Amazon · Jan 8, 2026

    Fine-tuning vision-language models on memory-constrained devices

    Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan and team from Amazon AGI just solved a major headache for mobile AI: how do you fine-tune vision-language models…

  3. Google · May 8, 2025

    Preparing Apps for 16KB Page Size Devices

    Dan Brown from Google Play just dropped a requirement that'll affect every Android app targeting Android 15+.

All Memory Leaks articles 1–30 of 32

Getir Mar 3, 2026

Memory Leaks You Probably Missed in Jetpack Compose

Teknasyon Mar 2, 2026

Silent Killer in Production: Memory Leak Diagnosis and Solution Journey

Grindr Feb 10, 2026

Automating Memory Leak Detection with AI

Amazon Jan 8, 2026

Fine-tuning vision-language models on memory-constrained devices

Hotstar Dec 23, 2025

JioHotstar Android App — Road to 99.9% CFUR

PickMe Aug 10, 2025

The Android Memory Revolution That Will Make Your Apps Fast

Thumbtack Jul 17, 2025

Debugging OOMs: SQLite Query Optimization

Google May 8, 2025

Preparing Apps for 16KB Page Size Devices

Posts on Medium Apr 23, 2025

How to Reduce Android Studio Memory Usage

Grab Oct 30, 2024

How we reduced peak memory and CPU usage of the product configuration management SDK

IDN Media Jun 7, 2023

Advanced Lottie Animation Memory Management in iOS

Lyft Jan 17, 2023

Detecting Android Memory Leaks in Production

Grab Oct 20, 2022

Debugging High Latency in the Market Store

Pinterest Oct 11, 2022

How Optimizing Memory Management with LMDB Boosted Performance on Our API Service

Robinhood Jun 21, 2022

Removing 30% of our iOS crashes

Swift.org Blog Apr 5, 2021

Swift Collections Library

Dropbox Mar 23, 2021

Detecting Memory Leaks in Android Applications

Expedia Feb 2, 2021

Solving Native Memory Leaks in Mobile Apps

Huawei Nov 25, 2020

Leak Canary: What Is It?

Grindr Sep 7, 2019

OOM Bitmap Resource Analysis and Optimization

React Native Blog Jul 17, 2019

Hermes JavaScript Engine for React Native

Grindr Jul 4, 2019

Handling WebP OutOfMemoryError in Android

Badoo Aug 7, 2017

Map Performance Comparison and Judy Data Structure Alternatives

Instacart Jun 21, 2017

RxJava 1 -> RxJava 2 (Disposing Subscriptions)

Bumble Feb 28, 2017

Android Handler Memory Leaks

Badoo Feb 28, 2017

Android Handler Memory Leaks

Meta Apr 13, 2016

Automatic memory leak detection on iOS

Meta Aug 24, 2015

Reducing FOOMs in the Facebook iOS app

Google Jun 17, 2014

FlatBuffers: Memory-Efficient Serialization

LinkedIn Apr 8, 2014

Garbage Collection Optimization: High Throughput and Low Latency Java Applications

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