Captures Tool Window

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In this topic:

• Overview
• Allocation Tracker
• Memory viewer
• Context menu of a selection

Overview

This tool window contains a list of system captures you've made when debugging your Android application:

• Allocation Tracking captures
• Heap Snapshots
• Method Tracing captures
• System Information captures

Click a file to open it as a separate tab in the Editor.

Allocation tracker

IntelliJ IDEA lets you analyse memory allocations that your application uses. In addition to a table view, you can click the icon in the toolbar of the Allocations tab in the Editor to open a visual representation of your application's memory allocations:

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When you hover the mouse over a segment on the graph, detailed information on the corresponding allocations appears on the right.

Memory viewer

You can analyze memory snapshots in the native Android .hprof format right in the IntelliJ IDEA Editor:

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For more details, refer to Viewing heap usage for a process.

Context menu of a selection

Item	Description
/ Expand All / Collapse All	Use these commands to collapse/expand all nodes.
Show in Explorer	Use this command to open a file browser (e.g. Windows Explorer) and show the selected item there.
Delete	Use this command to delete the selected file.