Export android studio profiler data

Question

I need to in some way profile my Android application while performing automated UI tests using Calabash. What i've gotten from my web search is that the built in android monitor is the way to go for profiling. Problem is that I need the profiling data exported and preferably in an excel friendly format.

What I need:

The load e.g. CPU in %
Time

Is there any way of exporting the android monitor profile data to a text file or equivalent? Or could I accomplish this with some other than android monitor? I have seen something about trace view but i can not see if that would suite my needs. Please do correct me if i'm wrong.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '18 at 07:41

in my opinion, you can find lot of information from .trace file.

You can generate trace log and instrumenting your app. https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/generate-trace-logs

from generated .trace file,you can use Dmtracedump (https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/dmtracedump) to parse the file into another format, like html, png, or txt.

if you want to visualize it to call stack or flame graph, take a look at this website: https://blog.rhye.org/post/android-profiling-flamegraphs/

thanks. it was helpful. I found out that Flame chart is now implemented in Anroid studio profiler — Shayan_Aryan, Apr 17 '19 at 08:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '19 at 19:45

There is no simple way to export Android Studio Profiler data to a text file. Each profiler view has its own format that it exports to. The CPU profiler will export to a .trace file. The memory profiler will export to a .hprof file or an .alloc file. You can access these export files by tapping the "Record" button circled in the image below and then tapping it again to stop. Be aware that any exported file longer than a minute will take a very long time to open.

Once these files are exported you can open them again by dragging and dropping them into the appropriate application. Android Studio works by default. This SO recommends the Eclipse Memory Analyzer tool. You can read more about the Android Profiler here.

A final solution would be combine Android Studio's ability to export a .trace file with Doni's solution to use Dmtracedump to parse the file into another format, like html, png, or txt.

As of Android Studio 3.5 there is no interface option that I can find to export Network Activity. — James Jordan Taylor, Sep 17 '19 at 20:12
Same here. I hoped I was missing something :( Thanks for your confirmation, James. — Fran Marzoa, Sep 18 '19 at 10:10
If you're not averse to 3rd party solution, you can use Charles proxy (https://www.charlesproxy.com/) to capture the traffic and export it as a .chls file. I use it for iOS development since XCode doesn't have a network profiler, but it works for Android as well. — James Jordan Taylor, Sep 19 '19 at 14:59

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '21 at 01:38

"Heap Dump" is in Android .hprof format.
"Native Sampled" Allocations are in .heapprofd format, which is Perfetto Trace Protocol Buffer.
"System Trace Recording" is in .trace format, which is Perfetto Trace Protocol Buffer.
"C/C++ Function Recording" is in Simpleperf perf.data format.
"Java Method Trace Recording" is in ART Trace Format.
"Java Method Sample Recording" is also in ART Trace Format.

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