Episode 24

Datadog for Android with Xavier F. Gouchet

Time to talk about mobile app monitoring with Xavier Gouchet and Datadog SDK

December 6, 202142m 5s

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Show Notes

In this episode we are going to meet Xavier Gouchet and the Datadog Android SDK 🐶.

Datadog helps you monitor and track problems with your mobile applications, such as crashes and ANR. The Android SDK offers a large variety of plugins that helps you track the health of your app with integration for popular libraries such as Timber, Glide, Jetpack Compose or the Android NDK.

In this episode, Xavier will walk us through their SDK and what are the most challenging tasks for a monitoring SDK such as this one.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.17 Intro
01.04 Episode Start
01.38 Xav’s Introduction
02.54 What is Datadog?
03.20 What mobile engineers can do with Datadog?
04.22 How Datadog works on Android?
05.50 What are the complexity of a monitoring SDK?
08.25 Which type of monitoring is it offering?
10.21 What’s the performance impact of a monitoring SDK?
12.51 Which OSS applications are you using for benchmarking?
13.56 What was the most complex plugin to develop?
17.00 Are you also giving suggestions to developers?
19.33 Machine Learning and App Crashes
21.09 The most common performance pitfall
23.03 How do you handle collection of personal information?
27.56 Integrations with popular Android libraries
32.51 Can people contribute to Datadog SDK?
35.05 Reproducible builds and SDKs
36.23 What’s in the future for this SDK?
38.45 How can people contribute to this project?
39.46 Further reading
41.09 Where to find Xav online?

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