One of our enterprise developers started complaining about the performance of our Android port, which forced us to take a closer look at our rendering pipeline on Android. It seems that Google’s hardware acceleration broke pretty much all the best practices of the Android 2.x era and what we had wasn’t taking full advantage of “project butter” the codename for Google’s new Android rendering layer.
This took a lot of effort to adapt and the effort is still ongoing but we wrote a brand new rendering layer for Android, at the moment you would need to switch it on explicitly and it will only work for Android 3.x or newer. When we will feel that its stable we will flip the default switch and make this the default for all future Android builds.
read more...
0 comments:
Post a Comment