CHAPTER 9

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Performance Optimizations for Android Applications on x86

Like so many other things in life, you rarely get only what you optimize for.

— Erik Naggum

Performance optimization is one of the important goals that every application developer always wants to pursue, no matter if the application is for a general desktop Windows computer or an Android device. Android is a resource-limited system and thus requires very strict resource utilization in space and processing time. Compared with a desktop system, the performance optimization for Android applications is therefore far more critical.

Different applications require a different focus ...

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