Accurately measure app performance with profileable builds
summary
Debuggable builds turn off compiler optimizations and inflate UI jank, so timing on debug can be far off; using the profileable tag on Android 10+ lets profilers sample call stacks and system traces with minimal overhead and near-release timing accuracy. Android Studio Flamingo with Android Studio Flamingo and AGP 8.0 adds a profile with low overhead option that builds a profileable release, or add the manifest flag, use a non‑debuggable build and a signing key to profile manually.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23Overview of profiling
- 0:51Profiling the debug build
- 2:21Introducing profileable
- 3:30How to automatically enable profileable
- 4:23How to manually enable profileable
- 5:51Summary
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