App performance guide
This guide provides an overview of libraries, tools, and best practices you can use to inspect, improve, and monitor performance on Android.
Users want apps to launch quickly, render smoothly, and require little memory and battery usage. This guide's sections provide information and insights into tools, libraries, and best practices that help you achieve better app performance.
Get your App Performance Score
Inspect performance
Improve performance
Monitor performance
Improve performance with Baseline Profiles
Improve app startup with DEX layout optimizations
Featured samples
Macrobenchmark
Microbenchmark
JankStats
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Reddit improved app startup speed by over 50% using Baseline Profiles and R8
Reddit is one of the world’s largest internet forums, bringing together countless communities looking for entertainment, answers to everyday questions, and so much more. Recently, the team optimized its Android app to reduce startup times and improve
NordVPN boosted the speed of its login user flow by 60% using Baseline Profiles
NordVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) app that protects users while they’re browsing the web by providing them a more secure and private connection. As a network utility, NordVPN’s users deserve a responsive UI, allowing them to set up their
Lyft improves Android app startup time for drivers by 21%
Lyft is committed to app excellence. They have to be. For a rideshare app — providing a vital, time-sensitive service to millions of drivers and riders every day — a slow or unresponsive app adds unacceptable friction.
Josh sees increased customer retention by improving app startup time by 30%
Josh is a short-video app from India, launched in 2020. One of the fastest growing short-video apps with over 124 million MAUs, optimizing it across a range of devices (high, mid, low end) and maintaining a standard experience across all of them is critical for their success. Improving app startups time and making the app responsive helped them achieve success.
Improving App Performance with Baseline Profiles
A lot of apps find correlation between app performance and user engagement. People expect apps to be responsive and fast to load. Startup time is one of the major metrics for app performance and quality. Some of our partners have already invested a
Increasing app speed by 30%: a key ingredient in Zomato’s growth recipe
Zomato is an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company serving customers across 500 cities in India alone.
App performance to drive app excellence
In our previous blog post in this series, we defined app excellence as “creating an app that provides consistent, effortless, and seamless app user experiences. It is high performing and provides a great experience, no matter the device being used.”
A collection of samples using the performance libraries.
Multiple samples showing the best practices in performance on Android.