diff --git a/app/benchmark.gradle b/app/benchmark.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e055128dd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/benchmark.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+// This comment contains the central documentation for how we configured Jetpack Benchmark. Currently:
+// - microbenchmark: configured differently than recommended (see inline notes below)
+// - macrobenchmark: not configured
+//
+// To run our benchmarks, you need to set the "benchmark" gradle property. You can:
+// - (preferred) Run via the command line (change the class you run on):
+// ./gradlew -Pbenchmark app :connectedCheck -Pandroid.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.class=org.mozilla.fenix.perf.SampleBenchmark
+// - Use the IDE. Temporarily set the "benchmark" property in app/build.gradle with "ext.benchmark=true"
+// near the top of the file. DO NOT COMMIT THIS.
+// - (note: I was unable to get IDE run configurations working)
+//
+// To get the results, look at this file (we recommend using the median; results are in nanoseconds):
+// app/build/outputs/connected_android_test_additional_output/nightlyAndroidTest/connected/<device>/org.mozilla.fenix-benchmarkData.json
+//
+// I was unable to get the results to print directly in Android Studio (perhaps it's my device).
+//
+// The official documentation suggests configuring microbenchmark in a separate module. This would
+// require any benchmarked code to be in a library module, not the :app module (see below). To avoid
+// this requirement, we created the "benchmark" gradle property.
+//
+// For the most accurate results, the documentation recommends running tests on rooted devices with
+// the CPU clock locked.
+//
+// See https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/benchmark#what-to-benchmark for when writing a
+// jetpack microbenchmark is a good fit.
+
+// I think `android` represents this object:
+// https://google.github.io/android-gradle-dsl/3.3/com.android.build.gradle.AppExtension.html
+ext.maybeConfigForJetpackBenchmark = { android ->
+    if (!project.hasProperty("benchmark")) {
+        return
+    }
+
+    // The official documentation https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/benchmark#full-setup
+    // recommends setting up the Microbenchmark library in a separate module from your app: AFAICT,
+    // the reason for this is to prevent the benchmarks from being configured against debug
+    // builds. We chose not to do this because it's a lot of work to pull code out into a
+    // separate module just to benchmark it. We were able to replicate the outcome by setting
+    // this testBuildType property.
+    android.testBuildType "nightly"
+
+    // WARNING: our proguard configuration for androidTest is not set up correctly so the tests
+    // fail if we don't disable minification. DISABLING MINIFICATION PRODUCES BENCHMARKS THAT ARE
+    // LESS REPRESENTATIVE TO THE USER EXPERIENCE, however, so we made this tradeoff to reduce
+    // implementation time.
+    project.ext.disableOptimization = true
+
+    android.defaultConfig {
+        // WARNING: the benchmark framework warns you if you're running the test in a configuration
+        // that will compromise the accuracy of the results. Unfortunately, I couldn't get everything
+        // working so I had to suppress some things.
+        //
+        // - ACTIVITY-MISSING: we're supposed to use the test instrumentation runner,
+        // "androidx.benchmark.junit4.AndroidBenchmarkRunner". However, when I do so, I get an error
+        // that we're unable to launch the activity. My understanding is that this runner will use an
+        // "IsolationActivity" to reduce the impact of other work on the device from affecting the benchmark
+        // and to opt into a lower-max CPU frequency on unrooted devices that support it
+        // - UNLOCKED: ./gradlew lockClocks, which locks the CPU frequency, fails on my device. See
+        // https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/176836267 for potential workarounds.
+        testInstrumentationRunnerArgument 'androidx.benchmark.suppressErrors', 'ACTIVITY-MISSING,UNLOCKED'
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index ce7d6fcbd4..a4e3b7648b 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
 apply plugin: 'jacoco'
 apply plugin: 'androidx.navigation.safeargs.kotlin'
 apply plugin: 'com.google.android.gms.oss-licenses-plugin'
+apply plugin: 'androidx.benchmark'
 
 
 import com.android.build.OutputFile
@@ -17,9 +18,12 @@ import org.gradle.internal.logging.text.StyledTextOutputFactory
 
 import static org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.TestResult.ResultType
 
+apply from: 'benchmark.gradle'
+
 android {
     compileSdkVersion Config.compileSdkVersion
 
+    project.maybeConfigForJetpackBenchmark(it)
     if (project.hasProperty("testBuildType")) {
         // Allowing to configure the test build type via command line flag (./gradlew -PtestBuildType=beta ..)
         // in order to run UI tests against other build variants than debug in automation.
@@ -553,6 +557,7 @@ dependencies {
 
     androidTestImplementation Deps.androidx_junit
     androidTestImplementation Deps.androidx_work_testing
+    androidTestImplementation Deps.androidx_benchmark_junit4
     androidTestImplementation Deps.mockwebserver
     testImplementation Deps.mozilla_support_test
     testImplementation Deps.mozilla_support_test_libstate
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/perf/SampleBenchmark.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/perf/SampleBenchmark.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f4da3d187f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/mozilla/fenix/perf/SampleBenchmark.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+package org.mozilla.fenix.perf
+
+import androidx.benchmark.junit4.BenchmarkRule
+import androidx.benchmark.junit4.measureRepeated
+import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4
+import org.junit.Ignore
+import org.junit.Rule
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+
+/**
+ * To run this benchmark:
+ * - Comment out @Ignore: DO NOT COMMIT THIS!
+ * - See run instructions in app/benchmark.gradle
+ *
+ * See https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/benchmark#write-benchmark for how to write a
+ * real benchmark, including testing UI code. See
+ * https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/benchmark#what-to-benchmark for when jetpack
+ * microbenchmark is a good fit.
+ */
+@Ignore("This is a sample: we don't want it to run when we run all the tests")
+@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
+class SampleBenchmark {
+    @get:Rule
+    val benchmarkRule = BenchmarkRule()
+
+    @Test
+    fun additionBenchmark() = benchmarkRule.measureRepeated {
+        var i = 0
+        while (i < 10_000_000) {
+            i++
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 8b5644fe6a..3b1cb9781a 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ buildscript {
     dependencies {
         classpath Deps.tools_androidgradle
         classpath Deps.tools_kotlingradle
+        classpath Deps.tools_benchmarkgradle
         classpath Deps.androidx_safeargs
         classpath Deps.allopen
         classpath Deps.osslicenses_plugin
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/Dependencies.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/java/Dependencies.kt
index b9f682b4e0..e6cbb58a46 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/Dependencies.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/Dependencies.kt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ object Versions {
     const val jna = "5.6.0"
 
     const val androidx_appcompat = "1.3.0"
+    const val androidx_benchmark = "1.0.0"
     const val androidx_biometric = "1.1.0"
     const val androidx_coordinator_layout = "1.1.0"
     const val androidx_constraint_layout = "2.0.4"
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ object Versions {
 object Deps {
     const val tools_androidgradle = "com.android.tools.build:gradle:${Versions.android_gradle_plugin}"
     const val tools_kotlingradle = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:${Versions.kotlin}"
+    const val tools_benchmarkgradle = "androidx.benchmark:benchmark-gradle-plugin:${Versions.androidx_benchmark}"
     const val kotlin_stdlib = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:${Versions.kotlin}"
     const val kotlin_stdlib_jdk8 = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:${Versions.kotlin}"
     const val kotlin_reflect = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:${Versions.kotlin}"
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@ object Deps {
     const val leakcanary = "com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:${Versions.leakcanary}"
 
     const val androidx_annotation = "androidx.annotation:annotation:${Versions.androidx_annotation}"
+    const val androidx_benchmark_junit4 = "androidx.benchmark:benchmark-junit4:${Versions.androidx_benchmark}"
     const val androidx_biometric = "androidx.biometric:biometric:${Versions.androidx_biometric}"
     const val androidx_fragment = "androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:${Versions.androidx_fragment}"
     const val androidx_appcompat = "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${Versions.androidx_appcompat}"
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 79226b3c47..1930aca433 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ android.enableR8=true
 android.enableR8.fullMode=true
 android.enableUnitTestBinaryResources=false
 org.gradle.parallel=false
+
+# Enables copying of Jetpack Benchmark results from the device to the build directory.
+android.enableAdditionalTestOutput=true