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.NET MAUI - Common memory leak pitfalls Foreword I have been working with Xamarin/MAUI for some years now. The premise sounds great, develop native multiplatform applications using .NET Stack. In my experience with long running MAUI Android/iOS applications, I have found that memory is surprisingly easily leaked. I’ve primarily used dotnet-dsrouter, dotnet-gcdump, and MemoryToolkit.Maui to profile memory usage. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-dsrouter https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-gcdump https://github.com/AdamEssenmacher/MemoryToolkit.Maui The first two tools, dotnet-dsrouter, dotnet-gcdump, are used to capture memory dumps from Android devices. The last one, MemoryToolkit.Maui simplifies memory management of views. However, MemoryToolkit.Maui may occasionally report non-existent memory leaks if it prematurely assumes a page should have been disposed. Because of this, it’s still crucial to collect real memory dumps using dotnet-dsrouter and dotnet-gcdump to investigate potential leaks. ...