--- title: Fix memory leaks LeakCanary in Android Studio | daily.dev description: LeakCanary is now natively integrated into the Android Studio profiler, making memory leak detection easier. If LeakCanary isn't already in your app, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fix-memory-leaks-leakcanary-in-android-studio-s1oc3vnxk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fix memory leaks LeakCanary in Android Studio | daily.dev og:description: LeakCanary is now natively integrated into the Android Studio profiler, making memory leak detection easier. 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Leak analysis runs on your desktop rather than the device, making it faster and reducing app jank during testing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Android Studio integrate with LeakCanary for memory leak detection? Android Studio's profiler now natively integrates the LeakCanary library. If LeakCanary is not already in an app, the profiler can automatically inject the required dependency into the build file with a single click. When a leak is detected during testing, Android Studio runs the heap analysis on the desktop computer instead of the phone, which is faster and reduces jank and application freezes. _Android developers tracking new profiler capabilities like this follow tooling updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How We Automated Android Memory Leak Triage — From LeakCanary to Merge Request with AI](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-automated-android-memory-leak-triage-from-leakcanary-to-merge-request-with-ai-xinpqkilp) · Halodoc · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Fourth Beta of Android 17](https://daily.dev/posts/the-fourth-beta-of-android-17-vwzrdywd1) · Android Developers Blog · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#android-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/android-studio) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fix-memory-leaks-leakcanary-in-android-studio-s1oc3vnxk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Fix memory leaks LeakCanary in Android Studio","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fix-memory-leaks-leakcanary-in-android-studio-s1oc3vnxk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fix-memory-leaks-leakcanary-in-android-studio-s1oc3vnxk"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T19:41:06.059Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:24:34.355Z","description":"LeakCanary is now natively integrated into the Android Studio profiler, making memory leak detection easier. 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