Process

Setup

Integrate into your existing dev cycle processes:

  • Build:
    Android - Gradle, iOS - XCode & iOS - Bazel‍
  • Distribution:
    iOS - App Distribution‍
  • CI/CD:
    Android - Gradle‍
  • User Flow Annotation API - Manually mark user flows: Android - Usage Instructions

Build

Run build with our plugin locally or in CI to create an automatically instrumented version of your app.

Review

Record traces and screen recordings of your app and upload them to our platform to diagnose performance improvement opportunities of any user flow in your app.

Best Practices

Set the baseline

Initial app diagnostics and performance benchmarking. Set initial benchmarks or improve your existing performance metrics: analyze the most critical user flows of your app - look for the biggest delays between function calls in the critical execution path to set prioritization

  • How often: once
  • Effort: avg 15-30 min per user flow per trace

Recurring

Analyze the root cause of any performance regression: Detect/remediate the root cause for reported performance regressions before shipping to users. Debug performance regression and crashes

  • How often: recurring
  • Effort: avg 15-30 min per user flow per trace
  • Who: Typical/recommended users
  • Engineer: Empower engineers to debug root-cause of the performance of their own code
  • Performance Engineer: Give performance-focused teams a powerful tool to investigate underlying factors of performance
  • QA: Elevate QA team's effectiveness with the ability to capture and convert experiential performance issues into actionable, quantitative reports

Product

Prioritize performance work and increase engagement for the most impactful user flows of your app

What can you achieve with Product Science?

Performance Oriented Dev Cycles Reduce the cost and time of performance engineering. Quickly identify main thread hangs, parallelization issues, duplicate function calls, and more through easy-to-read visualizations. Quickly fix any regression and APM alerts.
Better Engineering Initiatives Prioritization Summarize performance opportunities into reports that make prioritizing easier.
Quicker Adoption of New Technologies Introduce new libraries, languages, and changes to the client-server protocol with complete visibility of how they influence app performance.
Customer Experience As a Top Priority Systematically correlate the visual experience of your app with traces to focus on what matters most for the users and enhance monitoring.