Regarding Memory Leak Check in Android Platform with dotnet-gcdump

[deepika134]

Description

I am using dotnet-gcdump to check for memory leaks in a MAUI application on the Android platform. For more information on dotnet-gcdump, please refer to the following link:
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/wiki/Memory-Leaks.
I have successfully used gcdump on the Windows platform. However, when attempting to check for memory leaks on the Android platform, I did not receive the details of the process ID. I am using an Android emulator to conduct the memory leak check. The gcdump documentation states that this support is available in .NET 8, which is the version I am using, but gcdump is failing to write. I kindly request any suggestions to resolve this issue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a simple application in .NET MAUI.
2. Run the project on the Android platform.
3. Run the dotnet-gcdump ps command to collect the process ID. In that Android emulator process ID did not show, which caused us to be unable to collect the memory leaks.

Link to public reproduction project repository

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Version with bug

Unknown/Other

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

No, this is something new

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

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Did you find any workaround?

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Relevant log output

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[mdh1418]

Hi @deepika134, for mobile device scenarios, dotnet-dsrouter is required to bridge the connection between the diagnostic tooling (dotnet-gcdump in this case) running on the host machine and the application running on the target device (android emulator in this case).

Xamarin-Android has documentation for running the diagnostic tooling scenarios on Android https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/blob/main/Documentation/guides/tracing.md

For even more information, there is a detailed explanation for the mono runtime component that enables a TCP/IP between the mono runtime and diagnostic tooling https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/mono/diagnostics-tracing.md

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