If you're having trouble integrating, using, or understanding Android Performance Tuner, the information below may help.
Common issues when getting started
Android Performance Tuner is not yet fully integrated.If the Performance insights page is an introductory message with the heading, “Get performance insights with Android Performance Tuner,” your integration is incomplete.
Complete integration and then upload your game to Play Console, as described on the Android Developers site.
If the Performance insights page is prompting you to create a release, Android Performance Tuner is fully integrated, but you need to publish your app.
Release your app to a test track or publish it on Google Play. For more information on releasing, go to Prepare and roll out a release.
When you upload your app to Play, some final checks are run to validate your configuration. If you receive a warning message, please review the details, ensuring that you have completed the checklist for your relevant integration path.
The amount of data collected needs to reach a minimum threshold before it’s displayed in Play Console. However, if you release your Android App Bundle to an internal testing track, this minimum threshold does not apply. This means you can validate your setup in-house before publishing your app on Google Play.
FAQs
How does Android Performance Tuner affect my frame rate distribution? Could it slow it down? The plug-in seems to have changed it?Our testing indicates that Android Performance Tuner has a negligible (<1%) impact on frame time performance. If you are using the Frame Pacing API to provide the frame timings for Android Performance Tuner, then you will see that your frame times have become much more consistent. This is a good thing as it will reduce microstuttering. The number of slow frames should remain largely unchanged.
Yes, if you release your app on an internal test track (which supports up to 100 users), then your performance data will be available in Android vitals. Note that when your app is on an internal test track, we show all data regardless of session count. However, when you promote your app to closed testing, open testing, or production, we only show data once you have reached a statistically significant session count. This means that when you promote your app from test to production, there could be a short window of time where you do not see any data, before your production app reaches the necessary level of adoption.
Slow and fast frame metrics are tied to target frame rate; if this rate changes, the issues and opportunities change too. However, the underlying frame time data itself does not change.
No, turning data collection off is not an option in Play Console.
We rely on you accurately reporting the quality settings at runtime, and for them to be in line with the quality levels you defined during your integration. Otherwise, sessions will be classified as “unknown” quality level.
Right now, we don’t track user-driven changes, but we plan to do this in the future. Until then, these changes could show up in two different ways; depending on whether or not the settings that users select are part of the quality levels you pre-configured. If they are, then the sessions will be reported on the appropriate quality level. Otherwise, they would show up on “unknown.” One possible consequence is that some device models may be reported on more than one quality level.
A device model can appear multiple times in the chart and tables, if sessions on the device model are reported on more than one quality level.
This could happen if:
- the user changed the quality level,
- the quality level was dynamically set at a more granular level than just device model,
- or the quality level was changed remotely without a new release.