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title: "What is DDMS? Describe some of its capabilities."  
description: "What is DDMS? Describe some of its capabilities."  
author: "Hemant Patel"  
published: 2018-01-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32780/what-is-ddms-describe-some-of-its-capabilities  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android", "ddms"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is DDMS? Describe some of its capabilities.

What is [DDMS](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/12752/what-is-ddms-describe-some-of-its-capabilities)? [Describe](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158512/how-does-a-decision-tree-algorithm-work-describe-the-process-of-building-a-decision-tree) some of its capabilities.

## Answers

### Answer by Prateek sharma

**Dalvik Debug Monitor Server** or ddms is a tool which is used to debug the code. this is **deprecated** after android studio 3 and above.now we use the **android profiler** instead.

it provides various services like providing logcat information, thread and heap information, screen capture on the device etc.


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