Currently the only way to enable background tracing on Android is via the 'navigation tracing' flag. Finch should be enabled too, just like on desktop.
In progress: https://codereview.chromium.org/2006973002/
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3 commit de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3 Author: oysteine <oysteine@chromium.org> Date: Wed May 25 18:08:43 2016 Background tracing: Enable field-trial control on Android Currently the only way to enable background tracing on Android is via the 'navigation tracing' flag. Field-trials should be able to enable this too, just like on desktop. R=simonhatch@chromium.org BUG= 614221 Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2006973002 Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#395932} [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials_desktop.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/browser/chrome_content_browser_client.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/browser/prefs/browser_prefs.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/browser/tracing/chrome_tracing_delegate.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/de6783b9149459e36a42a67b478aaa35804548e3/chrome/chrome_browser.gypi
Comment 1 by oysteine@chromium.org
, May 24 2016