droidcon NYC '19: (Android) Transformers - Bytecode in Disguise
droidcon NYC 2019 | (Android) Transformers - Bytecode in Disguise | Doug Stevenson
What you'll learn
If you’ve used Firebase Performance Monitoring, you know that it automatically discovers and reports performance metrics for all the HTTP transactions in your app. But, have you ever wondered how it does that? Android doesn’t provide any APIs to listen in on an arbitrary connection (that would be a security problem), and Firebase supports URLConnection, Apache, and OKHTTP APIs. The secret here is bytecode manipulation at build time using the Transform API provided by the Android build tools. Join this session with Doug Stevenson to find out how the Firebase Performance Monitoring Gradle plugin intercepts and measures HTTP transactions at runtime with some assistance from bytecode manipulation at build time.
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About the author
Droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android platform. Droidcon engages a global network of over 25,000 developers attending events in 22 cities. The first droidcon conference was held in 2009 in Berlin and, since, it has spread its influence across the globe and established itself as the world's foremost community-driven conference format. Droidcon is the place to meet the international A... more