performance testing on android

Android: Performance Testing-Akshay Dashrath

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What about?

Tools

• Analysing logs (Trace View)• Heap Dump Analysis• Debug class

Trace View

• Graphical Tool to analyse execution logs

• // start tracing to "/sdcard/test.trace"

Debug.startMethodTracing(“test"); // ... // stop tracing

Debug.stopMethodTracing();• adb pull /sdcard/test.trace C:/• traceview C:/trace.test

Issues

• If a thread exits during profiling, the thread name is not emitted;

• The VM reuses thread IDs. If a thread stops and another starts, they may get the same ID.

• .trace files larger than 8MB cannot be read by the Viewer

Instruction Count

Instructions Executed Method Invocations0

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349 55

1584331

280490

1570294

160061

Heap Dumps

• C:/adb shell• C:/ chmod 777 /data/misc – In order to make the /data/misc

directory writeable• C:/exit• C:/ adb shell ps• C:/ adb shell kill -10 1234 -------Example• C:/ adb pull /data/misc/heap-dump-tm-pid.hprof

address.hprof• C:/ hprof-conv heap-dump-tm-pid.hprof 4mat.hprof

Questions?