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Document headless app starts and Android/iOS platform differences on the Mobile Vitals App Starts page:

  • Add a comparison table for cold/warm start definitions across Android and iOS (measurement start/end, thresholds, prewarming)
  • Add a Headless App Starts section explaining Android-only headless tracking, its requirement for standalone app start tracing, and platform support
  • Update the Mobile Vitals index page to mention headless starts and link to platform-specific details

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…le Vitals

Document headless app start tracking (Android-only), add a cold/warm
start comparison table between Android and iOS, and link to SDK docs
for full platform-specific details.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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nice, looks good, just one comment

| **Measurement start** | ContentProvider creation (`SentryPerformanceProvider`) | Process creation |
| **Measurement end** | First frame drawn | <ul> <li>didFinishLaunching notification (Standalone App Starts)</li><li>First frame drawn (Legacy App Starts)</li></ul> |
| **Recommended threshold** | Cold < 5s, Warm < 2s ([Google Play Console](https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals/launch-time#av)) | < 400ms for first frame ([Apple](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/423/)) |
| **Prewarming** | N/A | iOS 15+ may prewarm processes, resulting in additional start types (`cold.prewarmed`, `warm.prewarmed`) |
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what is cold/warm.prewarmed? are those transaction ops?

Didn't we add app.vitals.start.prewarmed to the convention

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