# Testing LeakCanary 3 heap-growth detection with the Slack Android app

DevFeed: [Testing LeakCanary 3 heap-growth detection with the Slack Android app](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cutting-some-slack-for-leaks-and-giggles-25621.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.p-y.wtf/cutting-some-slack-for-leaks-and-giggles>)

Author: Pierre-Yves Ricau

Published: 2024-05-07T00:47:25Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Py's blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/py-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Emulator](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emulator.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [droidcon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/droidcon.md>), [emulator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emulator.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [leakcanary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leakcanary.md>), [memory-leak](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory-leak.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes a preview LeakCanary 3 toolkit that detects heap growth by comparing repeated heap dumps and tracking objects with increasingly many outgoing edges. It explains how to run the tool against the Slack Android app using an emulator and UI Automator, but the supplied text ends before the results are presented.

## Source excerpt

In this article I run the new LeakCanary toolkit against the Slack Android app. Read on to learn a bunch! A new LeakCanary toolkit In two months, I will give a talk at Droidcon SF: Cutting Edges: universal heap trimming with LeakCanary 3 At Square, ...