# Firebase Performance Monitoring for Android Tip #1: Automatic Traces for All Activities

DevFeed: [Firebase Performance Monitoring for Android Tip #1: Automatic Traces for All Activities](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/firebase-performance-monitoring-for-android-tip-1-automatic-traces-for-all-activities-16217.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2017/08/firebase-performance-monitoring-for>)

Author: Doug Stevenson

Published: 2017-08-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [automatic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automatic.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [java-packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java-packages.md>), [lifecycle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lifecycle.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [performance-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-monitoring.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tutorials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorials.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Firebase Performance Monitoring to add custom traces to Android apps automatically. It demonstrates registering ActivityLifecycleCallbacks to start a trace when an Activity becomes visible and stop it when the Activity is no longer visible, using each Activity's simple class name for the trace.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.