Detect memory leak in android native code

Question

What is the best way to detect memory leaks in native code built with the android NDK?

Is there any tool like valgrind that I could use?

Answer 1

You load *.so library with System.loadLibrary, than call any jni functions. So you can define "startup" and "cleanup" functions - you can do your initialzation in former func and release all resources in latter. In this case it's possible to use any from large amount of available leak tracers - for example you can see following:

http://dmalloc.com/

http://www.andreasen.org/LeakTracer/

http://memwatch.sourceforge.net/

http://mpatrol.sourceforge.net/

About valgrind: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7815977/814297