High Performance Android Apps: Improve Ratings with Speed, Optimizations, and Testing

by Doug Sillars

Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you’ll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early. Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing tools from companies including Google, Qualcomm, and AT&T, but also helps you explore potential remedies. You’ll discover ways to build apps that run well on all 19,000 Android device types in use.

262 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2015

Reviews

[Iurii Okhmat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but not great. Needs more work and more details. Oh, and if you haven't tried the tools mentioned, like Systrace, MAT, ARO, etc, you should.