Profiling with Hierarchy Viewer

Hierarchy Viewer provides a powerful profiler to analyze and optimize the application. To proceed with the profiling, click the Profiling with Hierarchy Viewer icon, Profile Node. If the hierarchy of your view is quite large, it might take some time until it is initialized.

At this point, all the views in your hierarchy will get three dots:

  • The left dot represents the Draw process of the rendering pipeline
  • The middle dot represents the Layout phase
  • The right dot represents the Execute phase
    Profiling with Hierarchy Viewer

Each dot color within a view has a different meaning:

  • A green ...

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