Nanoscope

An extremely accurate Android method tracing tool.

Overview

Nanoscope is a method tracing tool optimized for extreme accuracy. The tool's overhead has been measured at around ~20 nanoseconds per method (on a Nexus 6P). To achieve this performance, the interesting pieces of Nanoscope are implemented as a fork of AOSP. For this reason, you'll need a device running the Nanoscope OS in order to make use of this tool. The entrypoint for provisioning a device with the custom OS and starting/stopping tracing is the nanoscope command-line tool described below.

For more information on motivation and architecture, check out the wiki.

Installation

Install the nanoscope command

$ brew tap uber/nanoscope
$ brew install nanoscope

Flash ADB-connected phone with the Nanoscope OS

Nanoscope only works with devices running the custom Nanoscope operating system. You can use the following command to replace your stock Android OS with the Nanoscope OS.

IMPORTANT: This will only work with a Nexus 6P - do not attempt to flash any other device

IMPORTANT: This command installs a custom operating system onto the device. There is no way to undo this operation.

# Prerequisites
#   - Nexus 6p is the only supported device at this time
#   - OEM Unlocking is enabled (Settings -> Developer Options -> OEM unlocking)
#   - Device is connected via ADB

$ nanoscope flash

Usage

Start tracing on ADB-connected device

$ nanoscope start
Tracing... (Press ENTER to stop)

Upgrade

Client

$ brew upgrade nanoscope

$ brew upgrade nanoscope
$ nanoscope flash

License

Copyright (C) 2017 Uber Technologies

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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