So, you are looking to improve the performance of an Android application. Besides using tools like MAT and StrictMode it’s a good idea to look at general improvements to speed up your application. The link below provides some hints and tips to help create efficient code. This article focuses on the Android-platform, but it also contains a lot of genera

When you want to improve an Android application performance, you need to do profiling. Welcome MAT! What is MAT? It’s a Java heap analyzer tool introduced by Eclipse that helps you find memory leaks. How-To First you need to extract a hprof file from the Android device. When running the device select the Dump HPROF file option as shown here Convert the

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As some of you already may have noticed, the new Android 4.0 SDK Tools and ADT 14 contained some manor bugs. For example a scrolling issue in the new Logcat or the not so complete changes they made regarding Android Library projects (apkLib). If you are interested in the complete list have a look here. Luckily Google worked hard last week, and yesterday they

When developing Android applications that uses network and database access, you need to do performance tuning. This is where StrictMode comes in handy StrictMode? StrictMode is used to detect memory leaks. It’s has introduced in Gingerbread and can be used as a development tool. The configuration below was the proposed in the reference documentation: p