Chapter    8

Advanced Debugging and Analysis

At this point in your Android learning, you’ve probably got a few applications under your belt, and you may have encountered some unexpected behavior from them. This chapter takes some time to explore the advanced ways you can debug an application, so you can look inside the application and find out what’s going on. The chapter also covers how to analyze your application to make sure it’s performing as well as it can, and helps you ensure that it isn’t doing something it shouldn’t be doing.

What you will explore here are various tools and capabilities, many within Eclipse and with the Android Developer Tools (ADT) plug-in for Eclipse. You’ll learn where to find these tools and how they work. In the ...

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