This week I was working on a Universal Windows Platform app that needs to show a website inside a WebView for several hours at a time. Unfortunately after a few hours the app took all the RAM it could get due to some memory leaks inside the WebView which I don’t have any control over.
My first attempt to fix this was to refresh the site periodically. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to release the memory – I think it made things even worse. So I tried a different method, which works quite well for now.