Release Notes

Fixes

• Improved FrameTimes timing accuracy: frame deltas are now correctly anchored to actual frame timestamps and accumulated across bin boundaries, fixing occasional dropped or incorrect deltas.

Changes

• Added support for Android devices with 16 KB memory page sizes

Changes

• Reduced overhead of the Android daemon (see Android overhead)
• Added launch time button visible while recording. Press it when the app is loaded to record launch time in the session.
• Added a “clear synced sessions” button in the menu
• Minor visual improvements
• Renamed FPS mode exhaustive to Auto-Exhaustive
• Added support for Android 17 (beta)

Changes

• Added WebView memory tracking
• Fix for FPS for certain devices
• Added self-check (diagnostics) to identify supported metrics on device

Changes

• Added a self-diagnostics option in the menu, which will report the available metrics
• Improvements to the stability of the background daemon
• Improved the starting process of the background daemon
• Improvements to authentication
• Added raw logging for FPS diagnostics

Changes

• Fixes frame times (frame timestamps)

Changes

• Fix for Samsung tablets

Changes

• Improve stability

Changes

• Stop app from being killed on certain devices
• Fix for Google Pixel devices

Changes

• GameBench Pro Android App now will automatically restart and recover when killed while recording a session
• Improvements to GPU measuring and added support for Vivo X200 Pro
• Improvements to FPS measuring with “Display Hook” method
• Handle device details discovery errors

Changes

• Support for Xclipse GPU metrics on Android
• Fixed intermittent FPS issue when profiling Safari on iOS

Changes

• Fix GPU cycles data collection

Changes

• Improved collection of Janks
• Added collection for Low 1% FPS data
• Upgraded authentication mechanism
• Added automatic sign-in from GameBench Pro Desktop
• Added “Display Hook” method to collect framerate (FPS) metric
• Disabled adaptive FPS method
• Disabled Janks in OEM profile

Changes

• Fixed framerate janks
• Improved session stopping
• Added GPU metric support for Pixel 9 Pro & Pro XL
• Improved support for 32-bit devices (tested on Samsung Galaxy A10)

Changes

• Added Virtual Display method to gather FPS on Pixel phones

Changes

• Added Virtual Display method to gather FPS on Pixel phones

Changes

• Fixed FPS metric on Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9 Pro
• Improved GPU usage tracking on Android

Changes

• Improved FPS detection on Pixel phones and Android 14/15
• Improved “All files” permission detection
• Improved CPU usage support

Changes

• Android 15 support (beta)
• Enable GPU metrics in “OEM preset”
• Support for multiple displays (Fold and Flip devices)
• Fix bug with GPU metrics

Changes

• Removes security warning related to the target Android version
• Improved battery and power metrics
• Metrics collection is now more robust

Changes

• Support for Android 11-12
• Added profiling software to meta data
• Renable auto-sync in settings
• Add XIAOMI popup with link to instructions
• Improve support for power, current and voltage metrics
• Improved stability and support across devices
• Improvements to screen rotation support for Pixel 6/8 (Android 14 February update)

New features

• FPS and screenshots support for Android 14 (February 2024 update)
• Improved logging and reduced logs size
• Improved support for measuring GPU usage
• Improvements to settings and presets
• Added Android baseband version tracking

Known issues

• Screenshots do not work when screen is rotated on Pixel 6/8 (Android 14 February update)

ProNet features

• Added temperature display in the overlay
• Improved session tagging
• Added screenshot region of interest for reduced capture
• Make network RTT run only at the beginning and end

New features

• Adaptive FPS sampling which reduces CPU overhead (enabled by default in the settings)

Other

• Aligned Android binaries with GameBench Pro Desktop
• Renamed to GameBench Pro (Android app)

New features

• Overhauled underlying implementation

Added

• OEM mode

Fixed

• Improved session recovery when app under test crashes
• Fixed issue where first network sample could be incorrect

Fixed

• Improve stability, forced closure of recorded app no longer crash the app

Added

• Android 13 support
• Single sign on support

Fixed

• support Samsung a32

Added

• Android 13 beta (Screencapture Disabled for 13)

Added

• Screenshot quality scaling
• Enable frametime/janks by default

Fixed

• Screenshot issue on the Samsung s21

Fixed

• FPS on Chrome
• Multi-process performance detection
• Menu stability

Added

• Android 12 screenshots support added
• Added support for newer mali chipsets

Added

• Improved broken session repair

Added

• Android 12 beta FPS support (no screenshots)

Fixed

• Memory and Cpu multiprocess calculations improved
• Improved stop sessions to reduce 0s second sessions

Fixed

• Added support for newer Mali GPUs
• Fixed crash when hitting stop in a session

Added

• Android 11 Support
• Android Go support

Fixed

• Fix for missing Screenshots on some android 8 devices

Added

• Support for new Samsung devices
• Detect additional processes to be included in the memory metrics

Added

• Power only mode, power readings and screenshots
• Power readings improved on some Samsung devices

Fixed

• Resolved collection of CPU and Memory on Mali chipset devices for some webapps

Fixed

• GPU collection on some devices was causing device reboots
• Power metrics on Samsung devices compared and improved with Samsung support
• 32/64bit game showing metric discrepency analysed and resolved

Fixed

• Crash when launching recording on some devices

Added

• Low spec mode available from settings, record fps and screenshots for low end devices. Android 5.0+
• Increased supported Mali GPUs
• Update available checking

Fixed

• Android 10 stability issues
• Mali GPU stability issues
• Screenshot support for Samsung Android 10 devices

Added

• Network metrics for Android 10 devices

Added

• New App design
• Android 10.0 support for:
• FPS
• Power
• CPU
• Memory (new format)
• Screen shots
• New Memory Metrics to bring inline with Android Studio from Android 7+
• Initial support for Mali GPUs

Fixed

• FPS Overlay is now moveable
• Memory metrics will record from all available sources

Fixed

• Enable USB debugging button now works on all devices

Added

• Ability to record and store frame times that can be retrieved using an API
• Added an option to generate debug logs in the sdcard folder

6.3.1 - 8226 - 26/02/2019

Fixed

• Issue that caused cpu frequency to be reported 0 on some QCOM chipsets

6.3 - 8205 - 14/02/2019

Added

• Programmatic markers feature that gives users the ability to highlight session areas from their code

Removed

• GameBench advert to use the desktop tool

6.2.1 - 8145 - 16/01/2019

Fixed

• Fix a bug that caused sessions to be pushed multiple times to the server when a time out occurred.

6.2 - 7996 - 31/10/2018

Changed

• Targeting SDK 26
• Permissions are now requested inside the app

Fixed

• Devices running Android 4.4 and below are now able to log in again
• Bug that caused screenshots from the sample app to appear with user’s photos on some devices
• Bug that caused the last few seconds of a user’s allowance to not be consumed

6.1.1 - 7887 - 09/10/2018

Fixed

• Bug that did not allow users to register

6.1 - Build 7854 - 20/09/2018

6.0 - Build 7714 - 20/08/2018

Added

• Now waiting for confirmation from server when uploading a session is successful.
• Support for Android 9.
• Option to report issue when a session does not upload successfully.

Fixed

• We now show the correct time allowance remaining for Premium users with Time-based licenses.

5.0.2 - Build 7157 - 18/06/2018

Fixed

• Being able to profile Supercell’s games
• GameBench service runs in the foreground making it more stable in resource critical conditions
• Using a new implementation of the intro slider

5.0.1 - Build 6407 - 26/03/2018

Fixed

• Fixed timeout bug for uploading long sessions

5.0.1 - Build 6371 - 08/03/2018

Fixed

• Uploading faulty sessions when “Sync” button pressed
• Core states issue with QCOM chipsets
• Getting CPU for apps spawning multiple processes
• Erroneous starting timestamps for FPS in Android 6 and below
• Note 8 GPU null pointer exception
• Sony Experia C3 reading CPU freq crash
• FPS not being reported on Hotstar app
• Shipping with daemon for Android 8.1

5.0 - Build 4339 - 6/11/2017

Added

• Support for Android 8.1

Fixed

• Bug showing no internet connection for devices running Android older than KitKat
• Stability fixes

5.0 - Build 4013 - 16/10/2017

Fixed

• Fix a bug on power capture

5.0 - Build 3760 - 04/10/2017

Fixed

• Bug that caused some session to show as having 00:00 duration after being stopped
• Bug that caused premium users to appear as free after the app had been killed by Android
• Bug caused by gamebench/data folder being empty

5.0 - Build 3596 - 21/09/2017

Added

• Support for Android 8 - Oreo
• Repairing sessions that didn’t stop successfully or failed to upload
• Checks for invalid metric values

Fixed

• Getting memory metrics for Android 5.x devices
• Getting CPU metrics for devices using 5.x and above
• Getting CPU metrics for devices that do not have frequency information
• Getting Power metrics for more devices

Changed

• Public and Enterprise users use the same app
• Uploading each session in a single zip

4.2 - Build 2185

Fixed

• GPU Support for Samsung S8

4.2

Added

• Support for Android versions:
  • 7.1.0
  • 7.1.1
• GPU Support for Samsung S8

Fixed

• Fixed a potential crash on the dashboard