Build and run a profileable app manually

To build a profileable application manually, you need to first build a release application and then update its manifest file, which turns the release application into a profileable application. After you configure the profileable application, launch the profiler and select a profileable process to analyze.

Build a release app

To build a release application for profiling purposes, do the following:

Sign your application with the debug key by adding the following lines to your application's build.gradle file. If you already have a working release build variant, you can skip to the next step.
```
        buildTypes {
          release {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
          }
        }
      
```
In Android Studio, select Build > Select Build Variant... and choose the release variant.

Change release to profileable

To convert your release app to a profileable app, do the following:

Open the AndroidManifest.xml file and adding the following within <application>. For more details, see Build your app for release.

<profileable android:shell="true"/>
Depending on the SDK version, you might see an error related to manifest validation; if you can't resolve them and deem it safe to treat the errors as warnings, you can do so by adding the following lines to your build.gradle file.
```
      aaptOptions {
        additionalParameters =["--warn-manifest-validation"]
      }
    
```