Question

I have developed a file parsing application on the android platform. How do I check how much memory my application is actually using up ? I tried the adb shell cat /proc/meminfo command but this does not give me how much memory my application is using. it just gives general info about the overall memory. And how much memory should an application typically use up ? what is usual or unusual ? Any help is appreciated. Thanks !

Answer 1

You can use DDMS > Allocation Tracker to track memory usage and Heap Allocation for your app

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/track-mem.html

To Track the overall memory of a PID you could use following two methods in ActivityManager

To get a PID of your app :

List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> getRunningAppProcesses ()

and then the MemoryInfo

MemoryInfo[] getProcessMemoryInfo (int[] pids)