Perfetto Articles

Getting Started with Android Perfetto

A beginner-friendly Android Perfetto workflow covering trace capture, key tracks, Binder, scheduling, rendering, and startup analysis.

Which Metrics Should Android Startup Optimization Track First?

A practical guide to Android startup metrics, phase breakdowns, Perfetto trace signals, and production governance priorities.

Android Perfetto End to End: ftrace, TrackEvent, and Production Monitoring

A deep dive into Android Perfetto, from the traced and traced_probes daemon architecture to kernel ftrace sources, shared ring buffers, SDK TrackEvent instrumentation, and production observability.

Android ANR Governance: From Main-Thread Stalls to ANR Trace Analysis

A practical ANR analysis workflow covering signal-triggered traces, MessageQueue backlog, Binder timeouts, lock contention, Perfetto alignment, and production monitoring.

Android Cold Start Optimization: From Zygote Fork to First Frame

A Perfetto-driven Android cold start optimization guide covering Zygote fork, bindApplication, Activity creation, first-frame composition, ContentProvider traps, layered initialization, and Binder backlog.

Android On-device AI Profiling with Perfetto: NPU Scheduling and Memory Bandwidth

A Perfetto-based profiling method for Android on-device AI inference, tracing NPU scheduling, GPU counters, DRM contention, and memory bandwidth bottlenecks.

Android Native Memory Analysis: From malloc_debug to heapprofd

A practical guide to Android native heap leak analysis, from quick malloc_debug checks to Perfetto heapprofd flamegraphs and sampling workflows.

System-Level Android Performance Analysis and Tuning with Systrace and Perfetto

When Android apps suffer from jank, slow startup, high power use, or sluggish response, app-level profilers are often not enough. Perfetto and Systrace expose CPU scheduling, Binder, rendering, I/O, memory, and power behavior across the whole system.