Android app speed comparison with 2D hardware acceleration enabled and disabled

[4g63mark]

These silent videos are lame. How are illiterate people suppose to know what your doing. LOL

[RandomMessiah]

how to disable hardware acceleration for flashplayer on android tablet? Some youtube videos crash (even on my i7 asus gamer notebook) when I set it to fullscreen.

[Nickersont88]

It's going to take most smartphone users a long time to adapt to the app switcher button, isn't it? Lots of wasted taps there!!

webOS user on an Evo3D, waiting patiently for my ICS update :)

[bluefisch200]

That's what i experience on my Nexus S...it's like 10 times faster then with CPU acceleration...but i have the feeling that CPU rendering is slower on 4.0 then 2.3...how ever...on 2.3 you won't have GPU support, so this point isn't important ;D

[9719756]

Hmmm....have you tested this on a SGS2? I don't seem to have that laggy feeling on baconreader on SGS2 even with Gingerbread. Maybe this is an effect of the processor on the Galaxy Nexus?

[Trillville43]

@nawoalanor you completely misunderstood my statement and enabling hardware acceleration requires just a line of code and enabling the option does cause some graphical issues in apps such as speedtest with the messed up graph. App support will follow which usually takes around 6 months, its common knowledge what I was referencing and that's that Hardware Acceleration isn't the main reason why Android is laggy and it has to do with the foundation that it was built upon which requires a rewrite s

[1616Jman]

Yeah but the apps aren't updated for ICS so there might be some issues there.

[sk8rked]

Wow, HTC screens are really not that responsive. (When I drag something really fast, it doesn't even measure the touch)

[kwinzman]

@hellbentformaiden: Don't forget that the Galaxy Nexus has a screen with waaaay more pixels.

[hellbentformaiden]

is that a galaxy nexus? if so that is absolutely pathetic. i have a nexus s with the crossbones ICS mod, i turned the 2d accel on when i first set up the phone. i didnt think to see a difference, but my baconreader with it turned off is still fast, maybe not as fast as the hardware accelerated version, but it is not as slow as yours.

[nawoalanor]

@hellbentformaiden A lot more pixels to push than on the Nexus S, by about 2.5x.

There won't be a lot of Android 4.0 devices for a while yet; by the time they start to arrive, good developers will have adjusted their apps to enable hardware acceleration and eliminate any incompatibilities. Baconreader's dev has already confirmed it will be coming by March.

The Galaxy Nexus is a really good Android 4.0 device, but it's not so good of an Android 2.0-2.3 device, if you know get my meaning.

[hellbentformaiden]

@nawoalanor i do thanks, makes sense.

[dicknody]

If I'm not mistaken, my Asus Transformer Prime also has this option?

[Trillville43]

its also funny that none of these apps have been updated for 4.0 indicated by the placement of the menu button furthermore hardware acceleration isn't an end all its the way the code was written and it was to late to change so now they have to workaround this issue

[Trillville43]

Its a developer option and meant for testing purposes and while some things may improve with it on there is still a great deal of incompatibility

[matty323]

"help its slow and sluggish when I use it like I'm having a stroke" sorry, your use case is invalid.

[nawoalanor]

@matty323 You're missing the point entirely. This is not a suggested use case or a complaint. The video's a demonstration of the speed increase that can be gained by enabling hardware acceleration.

You don't run a benchmark on your computer 100% of the time, do you? You run it once to see the results, learning your worst case scenario. However, the difference here is so obvious that no professional benchmark was required, you can see the difference easily with your eyes. That's this video.

[bqrius]

o god.. couldn't you have recorded the video horizontally.......

[nawoalanor]

@bqrius Cry some more.

[bqrius]

@nawoalanor UHHHHHHHHHH oooooookkkkk....

[nawoalanor]

@oxeneers, Samsung backported Android 3.0 hardware acceleration as part of Touchwiz. This is why you're seeing the benefits a little earlier than most. On the other hand, SGS2 devices are among the most frequently documented phones to have app compatibility issues.

[xaronax]

Always thought it was a memory leak or shortage when it gets sluggish after a bit of use. Guess not. Awesome video.

[oxeneers]

With the Samsung Galaxy S II, which runs Android 2.3.6 by default (at least the Sprint variation with newest OTA), has scrolling similar to how it looks with GPU acceleration forced. Either TouchWiz has some sort of feature at play, or the GN has just a shit TI OMAP4.

[Luger718A1]

@oxeneers CPU wise the TI omap and Exynos are equals (both 1.2GHz Cortex-A9 cores) the GPU on the GS2 does smoke the one in the nexus though