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The ProfilingManager Android API lets you collect real user performance
profiles, such as system traces, programmatically. The ProfilingManager API
supports two types of trace collections: traces that you explicitly start and
event-based traces.
This section focuses on traces that you explicitly start and covers the following
topics:
How to collect traces with ProfilingManager.
How to retrieve those traces.
How to visualize traces in Perfetto UI.
Important details about how ProfilingManager works.
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Last updated 2025-07-25 UTC.
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