Android Developers: Outperform yourself in Compose

Jetpack Compose makes it easy to design high-quality user interfaces, but it can be difficult to track down issues that affect UI performance. These kinds of issues can lead to problems that your users notice, like startup latency, and dropped frames that appear as scroll jank or choppy animations.



In this talk, we’ll introduce tools to uncover what’s impacting your UI’s performance, focusing on Perfetto and (re-)composition tracing. We’ll then explore specific anti-patterns you may be using that are secretly costing you, how you can find them in your code, and what positive patterns you can replace them with. By the end of this talk, you’ll understand how to think in Compose with a performance mindset, and how to profile, analyze, and verify performance optimizations in your app.



Speakers: Andrei Shikov, Andrew Bailey



Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

4:03 - Profiling with perfetto traces

9:01 - Managing sideeffects

13:12 - Composition and recomposition tracing

15:00 - State optimization and invalidations

20:39 - Skipping and stability in compose

24:57 - Analyzing execution with method traces

27:47 - Fast composable design and performance tools



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Event: Android Dev Summit 2067



Products Mentioned: Jetpack Compose, Android Performance, Perfetto, androidx.tracing 2.0