SIGSEGV crashes on Android: how GWP-ASan finds native memory bugs
Why native memory bugs like use after free and buffer overflow cause SIGSEGV crashes on Android, how GWP-ASan detects them, and how to read a GWP-ASan tombstone.
Abhay Sood ·
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Debug Android Performance in Production With Trigger-Based Profiling
Android's trigger-based profiling captures Perfetto traces and heap dumps from users' devices when your app hits an ANR, slow start or out-of-memory crash.
Abhay Sood ·
Off the Main Thread: September 2026
Pull up a chair, here's what we did in September: a new filter bar, memory monitoring, a better errors page, layout snapshots for every screen and more.
Abhay Sood ·
Application Not Responding on Android: What Causes ANRs and How to Diagnose Them in Production
What Android measures when it declares an app unresponsive, why ANR stack traces mislead, and how to work backwards from a production ANR report to the code responsible.
Understanding memory usage of Android apps in production
Understand Google Play’s new dynamic memory thresholds and learn how to measure, monitor, and debug Android app memory usage in production.
Abhay Sood ·
What we got wrong about ANR detection before we got it right
A deep dive into ANR detection on Android.
Mobile breaks differently
Mobile app issues are stateful unlike typical server side stateless request cycle errors. Your observability should reflect that.
Anup Cowkur ·