Some good Android apitrace Info

[Kenneth Hurley]

Android apitrace documentation states you can use LD_PRELOAD in the 
init.rc but would have to flash your ROM, etc.

There is a cool way to do this preventing and possibility of bricking 
your devices.

adb reboot-bootloader <--- wait for bootloader to come up.
fastboot boot boot-apitrace.img.
adb chmod 0777 /data/

I personally built boot-apitrace.img from a JellyBean ROM and some tools 
called Android Kitchen.  These allowed me to edit
the .rc file and rebuild the boot.img file.

Now, I see that some of the code says that Android doesn't support 
LD_PRELOAD and it does.  I think it was added with Android 2.3.

One gotcha is that apitrace will crash if you have rooted your device 
and the boot.img on your device has a SuperUser program as
it changes ownership on the /data/data directory.

Hope this gives a little help to others trying to use this under Android.

Still not there yet, as I don't think apitrace uses the new egl.cfg 
which mangles the names of the .so files to load.

For instance my egl.cfg has:

0 0 POWERVR_SGX540_120

which means that the correctly loaded shared libraries are this:
D/apitrace( 2789): apitrace[2789]: disabled for com.xxxxx
D/libEGL  ( 2789): loaded /vendor/lib/egl/libEGL_POWERVR_SGX540_120.so
D/libEGL  ( 2789): loaded /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_POWERVR_SGX540_120.so
D/libEGL  ( 2789): loaded /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_POWERVR_SGX540_120.so

I assume the disabled for com.xxxxx is because the current code doesn't 
find the correct libGLESv1_CM.so file it is looking for?

Any ideas?

Regards,

Kenneth Hurley