awesome android performance!

awesome-android-performance

This is a list of awesome Android tutorials, videos and tools for performance optimization

View

• Infamous ViewHolder Pattern - ViewHolder pattern in ListView
• View Reduction - use Compound Drawables to increase performance
• Improving Comment Rendering on Android - Instgram’s post on TextView Performance
• Custom ViewGroups - a Facebook Engineer’s artcile on Custom ViewGroup to increase performance

Graphics

• Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration
• Debug Overdraw - debug overdraw
• Android Performance Case Study - Debug Performance use gfxinfo systrace and show GPU Overdraw HierarchyViewer OpenGL traces
• Android Performance Case Study Follow-up - Use OpenGL traces and UUI problems caused by transparency
• Hardware Acceleration
• Optimizing Hardware Layers
• Graphics Performance - Podcasts on Android Performance ####Tools
• Analyzing UI Performance with Systrace
• Optimizing Your UI - HierarchyViewer Usage
• Introduction to Systrace

Bitmaps

• Loading Large Bitmaps Efficiently
• Bitmap quality, banding and dithering
• Android: bitmaps, textures and pre-multiplied pixels
• Testing Display Performance

Memory

• Investigating Your RAM Usage
• The truth about Preventative Optimizations - You can find some useful things from the links.
• A small leak will sink a great ship
• LeakCanary A memory leak detection library for Android and Java.
• Android内存泄露案例分析
• Tips for Optimizing Android Application Memory Usage - Tips
• Android memory and performance optimization - Tutorial
• Building Memory-efficient Java Applications
• How to Leak a Context: Handlers & Inner Classes
• Improving Facebook’s performance on Android with FlatBuffers

Memory Tools

• YourKit - Performance and Memory Java Profile
• MAT - Memory Analysis tool for Java
• Allocation Tracker

CPU

• SMP Primer for Android
• JNI

Tools

• Profiling with Traceview and dmtracedump

Battery

• Optimizing Battery Life - Android’s official tutorial for Battery Optimization

Network

• Better Compression = Faster Networking - Colt McAnlis’ talk from SF Android

Article Videos Tools and others that cover multiple topics

Performance Test

• Testing Performance of Mobile Apps - Part 1: How Fast Can Angry Birds Run? ##Articles
• Performance Tuning On Android - Venmo’s experience on UI performance optimization
• Best Practices for Performance - Android Official Training on Performance
• Developing for Android - Chet Haase’s series,including Memory,Storage, UI Performance
• Detect and Resolve Performance Problems on Android - Use multiple ways to detect and fix Android Performance Problems
• Performance Tips - Android’s Official Perf tips
• Facebook Engineering blogs tagged android - Including many articles on performance

Tools

• Developing for Android IXTools
• Performance Profiling Tools - Performance Tools
• StrictMode - Debug Util Class for etection for Storage, Memory and others.

Videos

• Android Performance Patterns - Google’s official Video about Android Performance
• Android Performance - Udacity’s Video Series ##Codes
• udacity render example
• leakcanary - leakcanary source codes

People you should follow(their work contribute to almost all of this list)

• Colt McAnlis - Instructor of the Video at Udacity and Youtube
• Chet Haase - Author of the Developing for Android series
• Romain Guy - former developer of android ui frameowk team