Optimizing Android apps requires deep visibility into concurrent workflows and coroutine suspensions.
While local profiling offers a useful snapshot, scaling these insights to production without overhead remains a challenge.
This session delivers an architectural blueprint for a continuous performance feedback loop.
androidx.tracing 2.0: Swap backends dynamically and propagate coroutine contexts (Perfetto flows) across threads.
Smart Instrumentation: Use local ART tracing to find hotspots, then automate the injection of low-overhead trace points.
Macrobenchmarking: Track regressions and verify performance gains on physical devices in CI.
Field Tracing: Go beyond local and CI tracing, with ProfilingManager.
Speakers: Rahul Ravikumar
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction & evolution of Android tracing
6:15 - Overview of tracing 2.0 & performance
10:33 - Context propagation, coroutines & Jetpack Compose
18:42 - Global tracing & custom initialization
21:18 - Build tool optimizations (R8 & metalava)
24:53 - Tracing best practices & benchmarking
27:05 - Setup, summary & conclusion
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Event: Android Dev Summit 2026
Products Mentioned: androidx.tracing 2.0, Perfetto, ART Tracing, ProfilingManager, Android Performance