What is the 'captures' directory in android project?

Question

Recently, in one of my Android Project root, I can see a directory named 'captures'. It contains several *.txt files name similarly - SystemInfo_date_time.txt

The file contains different kinds of information. I'm curious how they are generated, and if there's any way to utilize the information.

Android Studio - 2.2.3 | Gradle - 2.14.1

Answer 1

Those files are capture files generated when running the Layout Inspector or the Method Tracing in Android Studio (see here for more information about Layout Inspector and here for Method Tracing)