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Google Starts Scanning Android Apps
eldavojohn writes "A recent blog post has Android developers talking about Google finally scanning third party applications for malware. Oddly enough, Google claims this service (codenamed 'Bouncer') has been active for some time: 'The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise.' So it appears that they allow the software to be sold even before it is scanned and it also appears that no one has been bitten by a false positive from this software. Apparently Bouncer is not as oppressive as Apple's solution although given recent news its effectiveness must be questioned. Have any readers had their apps flagged or pulled by Bouncer?"
Memory leaks in java?
Please do tell how... Not only there is garbage collection, I was under the impression you couldn't even access the memory directly.
Furthermore, android loads/unloads apps to the memory all the time. If an application is consuming too much memory on the background and you need it, it'll be killed.
On the other hand, you should look into avoiding Sense, Touchwiz or anything like that. Those are the most likely culprits.