As you know the technical reasons you would think along those lines. Consumers don't know the ins and outs of the device so they probably wouldn't think the same as you or I. Turning a negative into a positive, a good marketing team would have a field day with this. Something along the lines of:
T-Mobile / HTC / Android: True gaming experience with "Full Gaming Mode". No interruptions just complete gaming pleasure :-) Pd. Sundog wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
