Measuring Time
How much time an operation or sequence of operations takes to complete is a critical piece of information when it is time to optimize code. Without knowing how much time is spent doing something, your optimizations are impossible to measure. Java and Android provide the following simple APIs your application can use to measure time and therefore performance:
- System.currentTimeMillis
- System.nanoTime
- Debug.threadCpuTimeNanos
- SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis
- SystemClock.elapsedRealtime
- SystemClock.uptimeMillis
Typically, your application needs to make two calls to these methods as a single call is hardly meaningful. To measure time, your application needs a start time and an end time, and performance is measured as the difference ...
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