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@itaybre itaybre commented May 26, 2026

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Enable enableStandaloneAppStartTracing in the getting started guides for Apple and Android platforms so users get more accurate app start measurements out of the box.

  • Apple: Add options.experimental.enableStandaloneAppStartTracing = true to all 6 code snippets (Swift, ObjC, SwiftUI) across iOS/macOS and tvOS/visionOS platform sections
  • Android: Add io.sentry.standalone-app-start-tracing.enable meta-data to the AndroidManifest.xml config

The option is shown when the Tracing toggle is enabled on the getting started page.

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Add experimental.enableStandaloneAppStartTracing to all Apple platform
getting started code snippets (Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI) and
io.sentry.standalone-app-start-tracing.enable to the Android manifest,
within the tracing product option section for more accurate app start
measurements.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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tbh I'm not sure if we wanna do this now because the dashboard doesn't yet support / reflect the standalone app starts

or at the very least we'll need to document it here

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buenaflor commented May 27, 2026

I think it makes sense to add this to the tracing page instead: e.g https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/android/tracing/

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romtsn commented May 27, 2026

I agree with Gino, let's add it to the Tracing landing page instead, and add a bit more explanation (or a link to the full doc on standalone app starts), if you're fine with that? I think it's not a good look for us to promote experimental features in the main getting started snippet. Sorry for misguiding you!

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romtsn commented May 27, 2026

We could track its adoption, and then put it in the main getting started snippet later (if not enough adoption), when we will have done the work for the Mobile Vitals dashboard.

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