kolby wrote: > My app is Steel, a web browser. Ah, sorry, didn't make the connection.
> If I had used other resource heavy apps before launching Steel (like > the other browser or maps), the UI is sluggish, pages take longer to > render, and event handling in the virtual keyboard is delayed. Until > they finally get cleared out, which can take some time. 1. How long is "some time"? 2. Are you pre-allocating a lot of stuff as Steel opens, or is the sluggishness mostly triggered by user actions once your activity is up? In other words, are the complaints stemming more from the initial launch, or more from attempts to click/pan/type and otherwise use Steel once opened? 3. Can you detect that this situation is occurring to your code in real time? In other words, while you as a human can recognize sluggishness just as a matter of course, is there a way you can put enough internal profiling in Steel such that *Steel* realizes "hey, things are going slower than normal"? Based on these answers, I can help you brainstorm ways for Steel to perhaps require resources more gracefully at startup and help manage user expectations for everything else that can't be otherwise dealt with. After all, the Android OS model is not significantly different than the pagefile/swapfile approach used by other OSes, at least in terms of the perceived impact upon a newly-opening application. Use the same techniques in Android as you would in, say, Windows for dealing with the case where your application needs to do work on startup and the user might have a bunch of other applications open. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
