Android - Add possibility to remove deadline timeout for activity transactions

[zhukic]

Problem Statement

Sentry Android SDK version - 8.2.0

Hi, If the io.sentry.traces.activity.auto-finish.enable flag is disabled, the transaction is automatically finished in 30 seconds with the DEADLINE_EXCEEDED result.

Could you add the possibility of removing this deadline? We'd like to track activities throughout their lifetime.

Solution Brainstorm

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[markushi]

We'd like to track activities throughout their lifetime.

@zhukic Could you elaborate on this, and which benefits you expect from a transaction bound to the activity lifecycle?

[zhukic]

@markushi We want to track the slow/frozen frame rates during full activity lifecycle

[zhukic]

@markushi Hi,

Any thoughts about this?

[markushi]

@zhukic We're still discussing about this internally, as we have do have a few features coming up which could provide slow/frozen frames in a more granular level (~being able to let you when a frozen frame occured during your activity lifecycle), but there's nothing set in stone right now. I'll let you know once I have some more concrete answer for you!

[romtsn]

let's expose the deadlineTimeout option in SentryOptions to allow overriding it. And make it clear it applies only to auto-instrumented txs.

[zhukic]

Hi, What's the status of this feature?

[markushi]

We're still on this, it's already marked as TODO so you can expect this to be implemented very soon.

[zhukic]

Hi, What's the status of it?

[kahest]

@zhukic no update yet, we'll follow up here when we start working on it and/or this has been released

[stefanosiano]

@zhukic we added a deadlineTimeout option, which can be set to 0 to disable it This will land in version 8.18.0, probably sometime next week

[zhukic]

@stefanosiano Thank you!