# Android Performance Audit

> Use when profiling Android apps, debugging memory leaks, optimizing Compose UI, or improving app startup time.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-performance-audit`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [prasad-vennam](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/prasad-vennam)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [prasad-vennam](https://github.com/prasad-vennam)
- **Source:** https://github.com/prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/android-performance-audit

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-performance-audit
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Android Performance Auditing 🚀⏱️

Expert strategies for profiling and optimizing Android applications to ensure smooth, responsive, and efficient user experiences.

## ⚡ When to Use
- **UI Lag**: Fixing jank in lists or complex Compose layouts.
- **Memory Issues**: Debugging `OutOfMemoryError` or high memory growth.
- **App Startup**: Reducing the time from icon tap to first usable frame.
- **Battery Drain**: Identifying excessive network calls or background work.
- **Leak Detection**: Investigating persistent objects after activity destruction.

## 🛠️ Main Tools

### 1. Android Studio Profiler
- **CPU Profiler**: Inspect call stacks and thread activity.
- **Memory Profiler**: Capture heap dumps and track allocations.
- **Network Profiler**: Analyze traffic and payload sizes.
- **Energy Profiler**: Monitor battery impact.

### 2. LeakCanary
- **Rule**: ALWAYS include LeakCanary in debug builds.
- Use it to detect memory leaks automatically during development.

## 🎥 Compose Optimization

- [ ] **Recomposition Tracking**: Use the "Layout Inspector" in Android Studio to count recompositions.
- [ ] **Stability Rules**: Use `@Stable` or `@Immutable` on domain models to help the Compose compiler.
- [ ] **Lambda Stability**: Avoid pass-through lambdas that capture unstable variables; use method references where possible.
- [ ] **remember & derivedStateOf**: Minimize expensive calculations within the composition loop.

## 🏁 App Startup Optimization

- **Baseline Profiles**: Use Baseline Profiles to pre-compile critical code paths (AOT) to improve startup by up to 30%.
- **Lazy Initialization**: Use `Lazy` or `Hilt` entry points to avoid unnecessary object creation during `Application.onCreate`.
- **App Startup Library**: Utilize `androidx.startup` for organized component initialization.

## 📦 Memory Management Checklist

- [ ] **Context Leaks**: Ensure no long-lived references to `Activity` context (use `ApplicationContext` if possible).
- [ ] **Bitmap Scaling**: Never load full-resolution bitmaps into small `Image` views. Use **Coil** with `size()` transformations.
- [ ] **Flow/Coroutine Cleanup**: Use `viewModelScope` to ensure background tasks are canceled with the UI.

## 🧪 Benchmarking

- **Macrobenchmark**: Measure high-level user interactions (Startup, Scrolling).
- **Microbenchmark**: Measure isolated code loops or CPU-intensive algorithms.

## 🔗 Related Resources
- [Android Performance Documentation](https://developer.android.com/topic/performance)
- [Baseline Profiles Guide](https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/baselineprofiles/overview)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [prasad-vennam](https://github.com/prasad-vennam)
- **Source:** [prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills](https://github.com/prasad-vennam/Awesome-Android-AI-Agent-Skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-prasad-vennam-awesome-android-ai-agent-skills-android-performance-audit
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/prasad-vennam
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