[Question]: Is the baseline profile functioning correctly ? about nowinandroid HOT 1 CLOSED

Thanks for this input. You are mixing two different approaches for installing an app with a baseline profile.
When a baseline profile is provided within the app, and the app is installed via local development tools you won't see the speed profile reported correctly.
The expected status of status=speed-profile instead of status=run-from-apk is visible for apps installed from the Play Store instead.

The Profile Installer library takes on the installation of the baseline profile. In order to verify the difference startup or runtime duration, use the Macrobenchmark library. We have included a set of startup benchmarks in Now in Android.

You can also load the development apk into Android Studio's APK Analyzer and check whether the profile is included as /assets/dexopt/baseline.prof{m}.

Lastly, you can verify the installation by triggering a broadcast to force synchronous installation of the baseline profile, the same way that the benchmarking library does.
For a release build of Now in Android this broadcast is

adb shell am broadcast -a androidx.profileinstaller.action.INSTALL_PROFILE com.google.samples.apps.nowinandroid.demo/androidx.profileinstaller.ProfileInstallReceiver

If that returns 1, the profile has been successfully installed.

Thanks for highlighting this potentially confusing section in our guidance. We will take a closer look and see how this can be improved by streamlining the guidance provided.

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