An Android Studio project that demonstrates a memory leak when a TextView is fully outside of its parent container. In this sample the leaking xml is layout called no_gc.xml, in which a TextView is pushed out of a surrounding FrameLayout. yes_gc.xml is otherwise identical, but part of the TextView is still visible.
After starting the application and touching any part of the screen, whole screen should become green. However, on some devices the left side of the screen stays red, indidating a memory leak.
Attached is com.example.app.4.3.MAT.hprof which contains a memory dump from a 4.3 device converted into Eclipse MAT format for your viewing. If you trace the GC roots you can see that one of the TrackingViews is tied to the application view root by the TextView it contains.
Tested devices:
leaks: 4.2.2 4.3 4.3 (emulator)
works: 4.1.2 4.4 (emulator)