I call "hack" again. Imagine what the Android haters would say IMMEDIATELY! "Your phone has to have a special mode to handle a simple display smoothly? BWAHAHAHA...." etc. etc.
On Mar 27, 7:43 am, Pd <lotusscr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking on the same lines. Maybe have a "Gaming Mode" where the > user knowingly chooses to turn the device into a games machine for > better performance. > > Pd. > > > > Markus Junginger wrote: > > I strongly agree with the idea that foreground processes should be > > preferred. Currently I develop a game, which - like most games - > > relies on a constant high frame rate. At first, the game pretty sloppy > > until I realized some background app was draining CPU resources. So I > > uninstalled some of them until it ran smoothly. Clearly, this is > > nothing you want to tell a user to do. > > > So, my first thought on how to solve this is a guaranteed CPU slice > > for the foreground app. Let the foreground task constantly get 90-95% > > of the CPU time if it needs it, no matter what's running in the > > background. The remaining 5-10% should be enough for background tasks. > > I think that's perfectly fine if, for example, emails are received a > > little slower when the user plays a game. Of course, if the foreground > > task does not use the CPU entirely, background tasks should be able to > > get a bigger slice. > > > Oh, and by the way, what about a JIT or a hotspot compiler? If Android > > apps would be running a factor ~10 the problem would be smaller by the > > same factor. :)- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
