The Android Studio Profiler tool

The Android Studio Profiler tool is quite complex and deep. But it is very simple to use it to do some really significant measurements with our app. We can see how much of the device's resources our app is using and therefore attempt to improve the efficiency of our app to make it run more efficiently and use less in the way of resources. By resources, I am talking about CPU and memory usage.

Code optimization is beyond the scope of the book, but a look at how we begin to monitor our app's performance is a good introduction. Select View from the main Android Studio menu and then select Tool Windows | Profiler.

You will see the following window in the lower area of Android Studio:

Figure 22.6 – Android Studio window

To get started using the Profiler tool, run the Live Drawing app. The Profiler tool should begin to display graphs and data as shown in the next figure.

Depending on the configuration of...