In this talk we discuss our initial experiences using the Eclipse TPTP profiler to visualize Google Android TraceView output within the Eclipse workbench. Google Android provides the ability to profile application execution and provides a standalone tool called TraceView for visualizing profiles. We have experimented with Eclipse TPTP's profiling formats and views to visualize Android profiling data within the Eclipse workbench. We will summarize the basics of the Android trace feature and compare the fields that are traced by Android when running Android Applications to the fields traced by TPTP when profiling Java applications. We discuss how we converted the Android application trace files into a format that can be consumed by TPTP. We will show some examples of the resulting views and discuss the benefits and limitations of the approach. By way of demonstration, we will show a traced Android Application execute, convert the resulting trace file to a TPTP format, and visualize it within TPTP. We will conclude with a list of possible future directions to improve the interaction between Eclipse TPTP and Google Android Application profiling.
This video was recorded at EclipseCon 2009.
Total running time 42:15 minutes
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