Rewind and Resolve: A deep dive into building Session Replay for Android
July 21, 2025
47 min
Free
android
session-replay
debugging
performance
sdk
sentry
crash-reporting
ui-automation
jetpack-compose
pixel-copy-api
masking-sensitive-data
Description
This talk delves into the technical details of building a session replay feature for Android applications. The presenter, Roman Zavarnitsyn from Sentry, explains the challenges and solutions involved in capturing user activity, ensuring high fidelity, maintaining low performance overhead, and effectively masking sensitive data. The discussion covers various approaches to screen recording, view hierarchy analysis, and handling different UI frameworks like Jetpack Compose.