Android Project Creation Enhancements

[smeubank]

Background

The onboarding during project creation today is not a dynamic experience which is easy for a user to best understand what options they have to integrate Sentry into their Android application. Considering which major product features they may want to turn on (Performance and/or Profiling) and which tools associated with their development lifecycle they can use to best integrate Sentry. (Gradle, Kotlin, ProGuard & DexGuard). To in the end have their Android application setup to be able to send errors, performance, profiles, and other contextual data around their application with each new build and release (source context) to provide readable stack traces which can be linked to their source code.

Proposal

There is an initiative to continue work in moving onbaording which re-uses our sentry-docs to the sentry repo in React code. There we can provide customer with a more custom experience, with toggles and other UI features to reduce clutter and make the experience adapt to the users needs.

• toggles for performance and profiling
• radials for different build tool plugins

Related:

getsentry/sentry-docs#7258

#48144

[getsantry]

Assigning to @getsentry/support for routing ⏲️

[romtsn]

Still wanna do two improvements to the onboarding docs:

• Have a switcher between Manual and Auto installation on the onboarding docs
• Have code tabs for gradle plugin installation