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Android High Performance Programming

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288951
Pages 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Emil Atanasov Emil Atanasov
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Enrique López Mañas Enrique López Mañas
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Diego Grancini Diego Grancini
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Android High Performance Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introduction: Why High Performance? 2. Efficient Debugging 3. Building Layouts 4. Memory 5. Multithreading 6. Networking 7. Security 8. Optimizing Battery Consumption 9. Native Coding in Android 10. Performance Tips Index

Walkthrough


It's extremely important to understand some key concepts behind the device screen and the code that can be very useful to improve stability and performance while developing Android applications. Let's start by understanding how devices refresh content on the screen and how they are perceived by the human eye. We will go through the limits and common problems developers can face, discovering what solutions the Google team introduced during Android's evolution and what solutions developers can use to maximize the output of their developing process.

Rendering performance

Let's have a general overview of what's inside the human brain while watching our application in order to better understand what to do to improve how the user experiences the performance of our app. The human brain receives analogue continuous images from our eyes to be processed. But the digital world is made up of a discreet number of subsequent frames that simulate the real world. The fundamental mechanism behind...

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