Android tracing, monitoring and debugging

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This article provides useful information to start using Android^™ tracing, monitoring and debugging environments.

1 Specific Linux^® tracing and debugging tools[edit source]

In Android^™ various Linux tracing and debugging tools are available. To get the global picture, refer to Linux tracing, monitoring and debugging page.

2 Android tools[edit source]

2.1 Application debugging[edit source]

You can use Android Studio to debug your Android application. Please read the official documentation about Android Studio^[1].

2.2 logcat[edit source]

The Android logging system provides a mechanism for collecting and viewing system debug output. Logs from various applications and portions of the system are collected in a series of circular buffers, which then can be viewed and filtered by the logcat command. Use logcat from an ADB shell to view the log messages.

For more information refer to the Android developer site^[2].

2.3 perfetto[edit source]

Perfetto is an open-source project for performance instrumentation and tracing of Android platforms and user-space apps.

For more information refer to the perfetto page.

3 References[edit source]

[1] ttps://developer.android.com/studio/debug

[2] ttps://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/logcat

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