Need help to understand memory leak in my Android app

My app runs fine until I interrupt the initialization process at the very first start after installation by exiting and launching the app several times as long as the initialization process has not yet been finished. The processing logic and the AsyncTask can handle this pretty well, so I don't get any inconsistencies, but I have a problem with the heap. It increasing more and more while I do this disturbing exits and launches at app setup, which will lead to OutOfMemory error. I already found a leak by analyzing the heap with MAT but I still have another leak which I can't isolate yet.
For background info: I store the application context, a list and a timestamp in a static class to be able to access it from classes anywhere in my application without using tedious passing references by constructor. Anyway, there must be something wrong with this static class (ApplicationContext) since it causes a memory leak due to the list of zones. Zone objects are processed GeoJSON data. This is how this class looks like:

public class ApplicationContext extends Application {
    private static Context context;
    private static String timestamp;
    private static List<Zone> zones = new ArrayList<Zone>();

    public void onCreate()  {
        super.onCreate();
        ApplicationContext.context = getApplicationContext();
    }

    public static Context getAppContext() {
        return ApplicationContext.context;
    }

    public static List<Zone> getZones() {
        return zones;
    }

    public static void setData(String timestamp, List<Zone> zones) {
        ApplicationContext.timestamp = timestamp;
        ApplicationContext.zones = zones;
    }

    public static String getTimestamp() {
        return timestamp;
    }
}

I already tried to store the zones like this

ApplicationContext.zones = new ArrayList(zones);

but it had no effect. I already tried to put t