Android Studio heap dump is empty

Question

Android Studio 4.0.2 is exporting empty hprof files from memory that is not empty. The profiler shows memory correctly, but I would like to use MAT to analyze the heap because Android Studio does not give the information in an easy to parse way.

Is there a way to fix this?

Answer 1

I know this is an older post, but have you tried using ADB to collect the dumpheap of your application?

adb shell ps | grep app-name

adb shell am dumpheap pid /data/local/tmp/android.hprof

adb pull /data/local/tmp/android.hprof

You will then need to use the HPROF-Converter to view in Android Studio https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/android/docs/tools/help/hprof-conv.html