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Auto Instrumentation for Android Jetpack Compose Framework

rspeakman — Wed, 04 May 2022 09:24:46 GMT

Is auto instrumentation supported for Android apps built with the Jetpack Compose framework? I have a native app built with Jetpack Compose version 1.0.5 on Android Studio Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Patch 2. The gradle plugin is configured to auto instrument the app and I am able to see high level information being reported. I can see the things like Loading XYZApplication, Loading XYZActivity etc. However I do not see any of the finer grain detail like taps on buttons etc. I am using the com.dynatrace.agent:agent-android:8.239.1.1002 dependency in the gradle build. The build.gradle configuration looks like

Re: Auto Instrumentation for Android Jetpack Compose Framework

Julius_Loman — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:31:22 GMT

Unfortunately, Jetpack compose is not (yet) supported for auto-instrumentation. you can vote for the product idee. You must instrument your application manually at the moment by using the SDK.

Re: Auto Instrumentation for Android Jetpack Compose Framework

rspeakman — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:11:34 GMT

Thank you for the information. One follow up question regarding the manual instrumentation approach. How do the UserPrivacyOptions work for manual instrumentation? For example if I set the DataCollection level to OFF, will manual instrumentation honor that?

Re: Auto Instrumentation for Android Jetpack Compose Framework

Thomas_Wirth1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 09:18:21 GMT

@rspeakman wrote:
Thank you for the information. One follow up question regarding the manual instrumentation approach. How do the UserPrivacyOptions work for manual instrumentation? For example if I set the DataCollection level to OFF, will manual instrumentation honor that?

Yes, the agent will discard all generated monitoring data regardless if it is monitored manually or by auto-instrumentation.

Re: Auto Instrumentation for Android Jetpack Compose Framework

Thomas_Wirth1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:47:09 GMT

Auto-instrumentation support for Jetpack Compose was added with version 8.263