Adding Firebase Performance Monitoring to a Jetpack Compose app

Part six of an Android Jetpack Compose application series introduces Firebase Performance Monitoring, which provides real-time performance insights through automatically collected app startup, lifecycle, network-request, and screen-rendering data. The Firebase console organizes this information into traces, metrics, and attributes, allowing developers to visualize trends, compare app versions, and identify areas for improvement. After adding the Firebase Performance Monitoring SDK and Gradle plugin, automatic monitoring begins without additional code, although automatic screen rendering is not currently available for typical single-Activity Compose apps. The article therefore explains how to create custom traces around important UI or business-logic code paths, including a reusable Kotlin tracing function that automatically starts and stops measurements and can attach custom metrics or attributes. Developers can then review custom-trace execution times in the Firebase Performance dashboard, while the next installment will cover Firebase Remote Config.

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