[dottrap]

This is sound advice.

I've been developing on Android since the 1.x days. Garbage collection has and continues to suck on Android.

People should not be so blind to think that better garbage collection is going to appear soon, and that a real world improved garbage collector will magically make all the GC related performance problems go away.

Google has demonstrated over and over that they are extremely slow to improve things in Android (see Java version support, see audio latency, see NDK, see Eclipse/Gradle transition, etc). And when they do finally improve things, it usually is still lacking.

Garbage collection in general is hard to get right. Even in better environments with highly optimized/tuned GCs, it still causes problems. It is unlikely Android is going to leap frog these.