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tracing, and profiling native Android platform code when developing
platform-level features.</p>
+<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> The pages in this section and elsewhere
+within this site recommend use of <code>adb</code> in conjunction with the
+<code>setprop</code> argument to debug certain aspects of Android. Please note,
+on pre-O versions of the Android OS, property names had a length limit of 32
+characters. This meant that to create a wrap property with the name of the app,
+it was necessary to truncate the name to fit. In Android O and later, this
+limit is much greater and should require no truncation.</p>
+
<p>This page covers use of <code>debuggerd</code>, a daemon process for
collecting error information after applications crash. Other pages in this
section explore system services with