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Memory leak

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Hi,

After some investigation on my app, I have detected an huge memory leak coming from Mixpanel (see attached pictures). For the moment I have no idea where it comes from but it appear as soon as I call : MixpanelAPI.getInstance(my_context, MIXPANEL_TOKEN);

The android studio allocation tracker confirms that it comes from the Mixpanel package.

Following my investigation :

If I call the flush method, the leak is stopped when the app is in the bakground.
If I don’t call the flush method, the leak is still present when the app is in the bakground.
If I call the getInstance(…) method with the wrong Token, I get no leaks.
I have tried with version 4.5.1 and the issue is the same (my current version is 4.6.4)
I have tried to move the Mixpanel initialization in another activity : same issue
Same issue on multiple android version (lollipop, kitkat …).

Any idea ?

Android studio : without_mixpanel with_mixpanel

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:18 (4 by maintainers)

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mbusaccacommented, Apr 20, 2016

@yinfeiru Hey Yinfei! Any chance we can reopen this issue? Let me know if I can help with additional context.

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fred8commented, Apr 22, 2016

If you have some image for in app notification for eg, yes I saw the same and that lead to https://github.com/mixpanel/mixpanel-android/issues/308. Which should be fixed with the proposed solution or an alternate one.