Is it possible to trigger an Android heap dump from the command line?
In Android pre 3.0 you can use so called
kill -10 <pid>
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In Android 3.0 a new command-line tool has been added:
adb shell am dumpheap <pid> <output-file-name>;
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Detailed description
To get HPROF you need also change the format of it using hprof-conv
The easy way:
adb shell am dumpheap your.package.name /sdcard/dumpheap.hprof
The hard way (don't remember why I've added it originally):
adb shell am dumpheap $(ps | grep your.package.name | awk '{print $2}') /sdcard/dumpheap.hprof
If your device doesn't have awk
try to use busybox awk
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After that pull the created file, convert it with hprof-conv and open it in Android Studio.