Session Replay for native Android applications

[bruno-garcia]

Problem Statement

Support for Session Replay for Native Android apps

We're working on it! Wanna join the early adopter release? Join the waitlist and discussion about the feature:

• Session Replay for Mobile - Waitlist sentry#63138

Solution Brainstorm

• Activity/fragments
• Jetpack Compose

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Improvement by Unito

[markushi]

It might be easier to implement for Jetpack Compose as the runtime is packaged as part of the app, allowing us to instrument the drawing code at build-time (as opposed to the Android View System where the drawing commands are provided by the system).
See

• https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/ui/ui-graphics/src/androidMain/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/graphics/AndroidCanvas.android.kt
• https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/TextAndroidCanvas.kt

[GeekCornerGH]

It might be easier to implement for Jetpack Compose as the runtime is packaged as part of the app, allowing us to instrument the drawing code at build-time (as opposed to the Android View System where the drawing commands are provided by the system). See

• https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/ui/ui-graphics/src/androidMain/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/graphics/AndroidCanvas.android.kt
• https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/TextAndroidCanvas.kt

Does this mean you wouldn't implement "classic" way for apps (I mean java activities)?

[romtsn]

@GeekCornerGH we definitely would, at the very least to support React Native which has a way bigger demand and still uses traditional android Views as of now.

[GeekCornerGH]

Interesting. For my usecase, I can't use React Native, what would be the top priority between Compose and Views?

[romtsn]

Interesting. For my usecase, I can't use React Native, what would be the top priority between Compose and Views?

Not saying you should use RN, but just meant if we were to implement Session Replay on Android, we would definitely start with something that supports React Native (=Views), so you're covered :)