[mikepitre]

Summary

rememberTelemetryCollector() built a new TelemetryCollector every time a TelemetryProvider entered composition. Eight call sites do that: AuthView (via AuthStateProvider), UserButton, UserProfileView, OrganizationSwitcher (three), OrganizationProfileView, and OrganizationListView. Each collector owns an OkHttp-backed Ktor HttpClient, a CoroutineScope(SupervisorJob()) that runs a 30-second flush loop forever, and a throttler. Nothing closes any of them. So each time an app opens one of these views, it keeps one more client and one more loop until the process dies.

TelemetryProvider now provides one process-wide collector, created the first time a provider composes. Sibling providers, nested providers, and a provider that leaves and re-enters composition all get the same instance. That means one HttpClient, one scope, and one flush loop per process. The telemetryCollector parameter had no callers, so this PR removes it.

I did not choose either of these alternatives:

• Reuse a parent LocalTelemetryCollector. Sibling views and a view that closes and reopens have no parent provider, and those cases cause the growth.
• Close each collector in a DisposableEffect. That would drop buffered events and rebuild a client on every entry.

Testing

• The new Robolectric test TelemetryProviderTest reads LocalTelemetryCollector.current from sibling and nested providers, and from a provider that leaves and re-enters composition. On main, both cases fail with expected:<1> but was:<2> distinct collectors. With the fix, both pass.
• A third case composes a provider in two separate Activities. If the collector were cached per Context, the first two cases would still pass but each rotation or new auth Activity would leak. With a per-Context cache swapped in, only this case fails.
• ./gradlew :source:ui:testDebugUnitTest :source:ui:spotlessCheck :source:ui:detekt passes on JDK 21 (507 tests, 0 failures). With this branch merged with fix(telemetry): record development instances only, skip in debug mode #999, :source:telemetry:testAndroidHostTest also passes (9 tests, 0 failures).

Not in this PR

The shared collector still wakes every 30 seconds to check an empty buffer. After #999 that happens in production apps too, where the collector never records anything. clerk-js schedules a flush only when it buffers an event, and doing the same here would remove the idle wakeups. I left it out to keep this PR to the leak.

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  • Telemetry now uses a shared collector across screens, nested providers, and separate activities, including when a screen leaves and re-enters composition. This keeps telemetry collection consistent as people navigate through the app. No visible interface changes are included in this update.

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TelemetryProvider now obtains a process-wide telemetry collector instead of creating one per composition. Robolectric Compose tests check that providers share the collector across nesting, composition re-entry, and separate activities.

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Shared telemetry collector

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provide and verify the shared collector source/ui/src/main/java/com/clerk/ui/core/composition/CompositionLocals.kt, source/ui/src/test/java/com/clerk/ui/core/composition/TelemetryProviderTest.kt	TelemetryProvider gets a collector from a process-wide holder, which initializes it with the application context and a ClerkTelemetryEnvironment. Tests check collector identity across sibling, nested, re-entering, and separate-activity providers.

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source/ui/src/main/java/com/clerk/ui/core/composition/CompositionLocals.kt (1)

53-67: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The process-wide singleton ignores Clerk re-initialization, and tests cannot reset it.

SharedTelemetryCollector creates the collector once and never replaces it. ClerkTelemetryEnvironment() reads Clerk.version, Clerk.instanceEnvironmentType, Clerk.telemetryEnabled, and Clerk.publishableKey lazily through lambdas. The environment therefore follows later Clerk state, so a stale configuration is not a problem. The sdkVersion value is captured at creation. That value is stable per process, so this is acceptable.

The singleton has no reset hook. Tests that exercise TelemetryProvider share one collector for the whole JVM. Robolectric can run many test classes in one JVM, so the first test to render a provider starts the 30-second flush loop. That loop is never cancelled. This will not break the current tests. Add an internal reset function if future tests need isolation. Do not add it now unless a test needs it.

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source/ui/src/test/java/com/clerk/ui/core/composition/TelemetryProviderTest.kt (1)

19-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Tests depend on shared global singleton state, so they cannot prove that the first call creates the collector.

Both tests assert that the collected instances are identical. They pass even if an earlier test in the same JVM already created the collector. This is correct for the identity checks. However, the tests do not isolate state, and they are order-independent only because each one asserts relative identity.

The providerReenteringCompositionReusesCollector test is the only case that exercises the re-entry path. Neither test compares the collector with one created by an earlier composition. A regression that creates a new collector per process, but one per test class, would still pass. Consider a test that reads the collector from a separate composeTestRule.setContent call. Add a reset hook on SharedTelemetryCollector if strict isolation is required.

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Update TelemetryProviderTest to verify that separate composeTestRule.setContent
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Verified on an Android emulator

Setup. Workbench app on a clean Pixel (API 36) emulator. For each build: clean install, open and close the prebuilt AuthView 10 times (each opening creates a TelemetryProvider), then am dumpheap -g, which forces GC before dumping. I counted live instances in the converted HPROF.

Build	TelemetryCollector	Ktor HttpClient
main (c58b14e)	10	10
this PR (2c327a0)	1	1

On main, every TelemetryProvider composition leaves a collector, its HTTP client and its flush loop alive after the view is gone. With this PR, one shared collector serves every view. The thread count was the same in both runs (34), because Ktor's OkHttp engine only starts threads when it sends a request. The heap count is the real measure of the leak.

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Re the CodeRabbit nitpicks:

• Reset hook on SharedTelemetryCollector: leaving it out on purpose. No test needs isolation yet, and CodeRabbit asked for no change unless one does.
• Separate compositions share one collector: providersInSeparateActivitiesShareOneCollector already covers this. It builds two separate activities, each with its own setContent, and asserts identity. composeTestRule allows only one setContent per test, so separate activities are the way to get two independent compositions.

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The singleton fixes the collector, HttpClient and flush-loop leak, and the environment reads Clerk state lazily, so it never goes stale. I've replied to the nitpicks above. LGTM.