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Add experimental standalone app start tracing documentation to the Android and Apple tracing landing pages, instead of the getting started guides.

  • Android: manifest XML, Java, and Kotlin configuration options
  • Apple: Swift and Obj-C configuration options
  • Both pages link to the existing auto-instrumentation docs for more details

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docs(apple, android): Enable standalone app start tracing in getting …
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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.

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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 •
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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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Move the experimental standalone app start tracing config from getting
started guides to the tracing landing pages, per review feedback.

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itaybre commented May 29, 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!

Moved to Tracing page.
If we do not want to promote an experimental feature, then I cannot add it to the code examples there.

So I just added a new section in the page for extra visibility

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